[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11459]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            OPM DATA BREACH

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Madam Speaker, last week I was profoundly disappointed to 
learn just how large the recent data breach was in which personal 
information was accessed in the files of the Office of Personnel 
Management.
  That breach and the one before it were unacceptable, and it is a 
problem that requires an all-hands-on-deck approach to prevent future 
cyber attacks to protect those whose information has been accessed.
  Madam Speaker, I am proud to represent 62,000 Federal employees in 
Maryland's Fifth District. They deserve to know--and all our hard-
working Federal employees do--that the personal information they submit 
when they serve our country is safe and secure and that they will be 
protected against identity theft if their information was accessed.
  The resignation of Director Archuleta does not solve the underlying 
problems that made OPM vulnerable to these kinds of attacks. I intend 
to work closely with interim Director Beth Cobert to make sure OPM has 
the resources it needs to upgrade its systems and prevent a 
reoccurrence of this event. But this breach and the one that preceded 
it underscore the larger issue of cybersecurity and how we must do more 
to make America's networks the safest in the world.

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