Despite work by Congress to pass more than 50 laws to address cybersecurity, the federal government’s track record in securing its own information-technology systems is far from sterling. This could be seen most obviously in the hack of the Office of Personnel Management that compromised 21.5 million government records and in the 2015 hack of the Internal Revenue Service, which exposed the information of at least 724,000 taxpayers to bad actors.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Hill
