&gt;&gt; Of course, they claimed it was the result of a &quot;sophisticated&quot; attack, which is government fail-speak for &quot;We left your data on a bus, and a hobo took it&quot;.<p>No it isn&#x27;t.  The hack of OPM was very well publicized.  It was a long time project of the Chinese government to break into OPM&#x27;s computers.  I don&#x27;t believe everything I read, but in this case I know is exactly what happened.