A study from a Republican oversight committee has found that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management did not implement basic security measures that could have “mitigated or even prevented” large-scale breaches in 2014 and 2015, Reuters reports. “The OPM data breach and the resulting generational national security consequences cannot happen again,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the committee behind the report. The study maintains the OPM ignored inspector general reports since 2005 that warned of cybersecurity failings, and that the agency’s response to both breaches was too slow. In a blog post response to the report, OPM Acting Director Beth Cobert said the study “does not fully reflect where this agency stands today.”
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