Lawmaker wants briefing on OPM hack damage

Published February 4, 2016 6:04pm ET



The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday called for a briefing with counterterrorism analysts to discuss ways that data stolen from the Office of Personnel Management may be used in the future.

“One of the things we would like to do [is] be briefed by the National Counterterrorism Center,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. “I think it’s widely believed that this breach was not really about trying to utilize the personal information for criminal activity… but [is] a breach from a nation-state, really having to do with national security.”

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