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Robotron [gordonshure.com] writes:

A second round of hacks [rt.com] have been unleashed upon a vast range of already beleaguered U.S. federal government departments. The attacks again came from China, with the estimated figure upon personal data exposure this time running to about 14 million government employees across records dating back to the 1980s.

With each detailed personal file containing up to 780 identifying pieces [theguardian.com] of information, the breach constitutes one of the most intense computing blunders in governmental history. Though much can and has been said of the U.S. government's data collection abilities, their data protection skills clearly lack such polish.

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