I'm posting this here because we all know this will never get mentioned by the majority of the commercial mass media in the US - at least not accurately:
Government background checker [and private-industry contractor] USIS blocked U.S. officials from fully probing the hack of more than 27,000 employee records on its network, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee also suggested the embattled company appeared to have shortchanged network security before the hack.
The new accusations come on top of a $1 billion Justice Department lawsuit alleging USIS defrauded the government by conducting incomplete background investigations.
Both OPM and USIS were attacked by hackers around the same time in March 2014, officials said Wednesday at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. The security controls in place on OPM's networks shielded employee information. Hackers had more success with USIS' systems -- accessing sensitive data on tens of thousands of Department of Homeland Security employees.
The government took a more proactive approach than USIS to restrain the attackers, according to OPM.
Click on the link above for more. Turns out this ain't USIS' first time at the rodeo.