House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz scolds OPM Director Katherine Archuleta. Chaffetz: “They recommended that you shut it down, and you didn’t, and I want to know why” OPM CIO Donna Seymour, OPM Assistant Inspector General Michael Esser and Federal CIO Tony Scott testify. DHS cybersecurity leader: Encryption would not have protected the breached data because the hackers likely stole the security credentials of a government employee with access to the sensitive information. Some estimates put the breach at 14 million people, including 4.2 million current and former federal workers.”]
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