
A year-long investigation into a stunning breach of millions of personnel records and related fingerprint data from the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2014 and 2015 concludes the hack could have been prevented or at least mitigated if proper protections had been in place.“Had OPM implemented basic, required security protocols and more expeditiously deployed cutting edge security tools when they first learned hackers were targeting such sensitive data, they could have significantly delayed, potentially prevented, or significantly mitigated…