A WIRED report covers the 2015 Office of Personnel Management hack, from agency employees' discovery of the breach, their realization that the attack was most likely an advanced persistent threat, and their subsequent investigation. It also looks to the future, exploring the faults of security tools like unpaired encryption and how the agency can best rebuild. To remedy the loss of data in the attack, "a cybersecurity overhaul of this magnitude will, of course, require an abundance of talent," the report states. "And that means much depends on how well government recruiters can convince the best engineers that being locked in a high-stakes competition with supervillain-­esque adversaries is more exciting than working in Silicon Valley."
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