Missed opportunities to stop OPM cyber breach spelled out
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September 8, 2016
WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 7, 2016) — It was time to purge the hacker from the U.S. government's computers. After secretly monitoring the hacker's online movements for months, officials worried he was getting too close to critical information and devised a plan, dubbed "the Big Bang," to expel him.
Trouble was, with all their attention focused in that case, they missed the other hacker entirely.
A new congressional report provides previously undisclosed details and a behind-the-scenes chronology of one of the worst-ever cyberattacks on the United States, laying out missed opportunities befor...
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