Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Katherine Archuleta came under fire in her appearance at the second breach hearing in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

She was tight lipped as to the extent of the government employees that may have had their personal info stolen.

Archuleta presented the committee with her budget request that included: “As a proprietor of sensitive data—including personally identifiable information for 32 million federal employees and retirees—OPM has an obligation to maintain contemporary and robust cybersecurity controls.”

One figure is certain, however, the personnel records data breach at OPM, which was detected in April 2015, impacted at least 4.2 million federal government workers. Those victims were to be notified by June 19.

With no figures forthcoming, legislators are calling for Archuleta's resignation.

Representative Gerald E. Connolly, D-Virg., noted during the hearing that to pretend the breaches were Archuleta's fault would be missing the bigger picture.

He went on to define it as “cyberwarfare with certain adversaries,” including Russia and China.

Source: SCMagazine