Justin Sherman

1 month ago | americanaffairsjournal.org | Justin Sherman |Justin Sherman |Gavin Wilde |Julius Krein

Nearly a decade has passed since the breach of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) by Chinese state-backed hackers in the spring of 2015. That the operation netted Beijing the detailed backgrounds and personal data of over twenty million federal employees, clearance-holders, and applicants, as well as that of their co-habitants and spouses, constituted one of the most damaging counterintelligence breaches in U.S. history.