"Chinese have hacked the gov't" by Sam Schaffer

US government servers experienced a major hacking last April. Authorities, who detected the security breach with the EINSTEIN detection program, claimed that information on up to 4 million federal employees had been stolen. They have put the blame on Chinese hackers, who somehow infiltrated federal cyberspace and stole valuable data. 

Investigators traced the breach with the EINSTEIN program, shortly after they experienced it. Apparently, it originated from somewhere within the Chinese government. Chinese officials responded to the allegations either negatively or neutrally; the Foreign Ministry neither confirmed nor denied the allegations, whereas a spokesman from the Chinese embassy objected to the accusations of being behind the massive breach. 

Many Americans and federal employees have responded to news of the hack with indignation and fear. One senator, Ron Johnson, (who happens to be the chairman of Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs) called the breach ‘disturbing’ and called out the Office of Personnel Management’s incompetence in protecting itself from cyber attacks. Many other employees have responded with anger at the incompetence as well.