No way yet to tell what really happened in these "massive breaches." Accounts vary from initial reports, to later reports, to investigations, to hearings, interlaced with remediations of various alleged iterations, leading in most cases to claim the full story cannot be revealed due to possible harm by disclosure. And best, the favorite runaround: the usual suspects are named without evidence, indeed, assessments are shaded with the customary claims by the usual experts consulted, "it is hard to tell who did it" and not only that evasion but the best and brightest security wizards (there are six of them named, 2 for, 2 against 2 undecided) who disagree on not only who did but what to do about breaches, whether they are breaches or malfunctions or publicity stunts or fund-raisers, hair-raisers, fear-raisers, TED talks, rigged hearings testimony (hearing testifiers are 2 for, 2 against, 2 undecided). Reportedly, cybersec market to increase to $130B by 2020 if not sooner. This increasingly generates more breaches, more massive, more ritual for, against, undecided. This cascading chaos was invented by six cypherpunks, each of them for, against, undecided. Then as now, certain, uncertain, confused about everything and nothing and whatever. No wonder the media follows that leadership, copies its methodology, denies feeding the trolls. At 03:33 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-govern...

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/data-breach-threat-of-future-h...

When are people going to wake up and realize that all privacy promises are bullshit, that data collection is unnecessary invasive and orwellian, and that they need to start telling people who claim to need their info to fuck off. Medical / psych records? Income? Phone calls? Politik? Their kids sextapes copied from centralized phone cloud / sharing systems?

OPM SF86's. Next is SSA, IRS. This is all happening.