The OPM breach report: A long time coming

If you want to have even a chance of defeating cyber attacks, you have to be quick.
So, in hindsight, there is no mystery why the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was a loser to attackers who exfiltrated personal data – including in many cases detailed security clearance information and fingerprint data – of more than 22 million current and former federal employees.
Hackers, said to be from China, were inside the OPM system starting in 2012, but were n