The White House has not officially ruled out potential sanctions against China for its alleged role in the massive hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), according to U.S. News & World Report. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), who is the ranking Democrat on the Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee, wrote that data breach legislation currently under consideration would “require entities holding sensitive data to adequately protect it and to notify users or customers” and that had “both of those requirements been in place, these breaches might not have been as effective or wide-ranging.” The Washington Post reports on the OPM incident and on how offers to breach victims of services such as free credit-monitoring are only temporary whereas threats to identity theft never end.
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