Capitol Hill staffers learn what really happens when there’s a data breach
In the past three years, U.S. lawmakers have struggled to nail down key details of how two of the biggest data breaches in history affected the public and private sectors. “How far back does your information database go that was compromised?” former Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz demanded of then-Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta at a June 2015 hearing. Chaffetz berated Archuleta for failing to secure OPM’s IT systems, from which alleged Chinese hackers extracted data on 22 million current and former federal workers. “I just hope we get to the bottom of this…because this is a mess,” Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., said in October after questioning former Equifax CEO Richard Smith on when he knew hackers had struck the credit-reporting firm. The breach compromised data on 148 million people. To try to demystify future breach-related discussions on Capitol Hill, cybersecurity firm FireEye held a quiet training session for roughly […]
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