Security lapses left US system vulnerable

OFFICIALS say cybersecurity lapses at a US agency that handled all personnel matters left the system open to hackers.

US officials say years of cybersecurity lapses have left its governmental personnel agency wide open to hacks that have exposed the private information about nearly every federal employee.

DEMOCRATS and Republicans on the House oversight and government reform committee were united on Tuesday in heaping scorn upon the leaders of the Office of Personnel Management, the agency whose data was breached last year in two massive cyberattacks only recently revealed.