We already described how the recent hack into the US federal government's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) appears to be much more serious than was initially reported...

What follows is a timeline that helped me get my head on straight about the events that preceded this breach...

The extent of the breach suffered by the US Office of Personnel Management has apparently widened...

First the government must own up to its failure. Then the feds should follow this plan to fix it. By David Auerbach.

It's tough enough to be an undercover spy in the age of the Internet. China's hack of American personnel files just made it much, much harder.

By any measure, the breach of Office of Personnel Management networks this year stands apart. It represents a failure of stewardship and a serious external threat...

Attackers made far greater headway into federal personnel systems than was first disclosed by the government, gaining a foothold across an entire multiagency data center and striking a second system holding investigative data on employees with access to U.S. secrets...

The head of a U.S. agency that fell victim to cyber attacks defended its performance on Tuesday against withering criticism from lawmakers furious about a breach that compromised the personnel files of millions of federal workers...

Was the breach of federal employee records all that different from U.S. surveillance programs?

Good point by Tom Nichols. Imagine the situation was reversed and the NSA had been caught lifting the personnel files of virtually every human being who works for the Chinese government. How tense would relations be with China right now?..

The White House has directed all federal agencies to quickly tighten the security of their computer systems after Friday’s disclosure that the Chinese hack of personnel files compromised a database holding sensitive ­security-clearance information...

A big part of the Office of Personnel Management's security fiasco can be blamed on hopelessly archaic computers and a government that refuses to fund their replacements.

"This isn't a cybersecurity bill—it's a surveillance bill."