Feds change up how they do background checks after OPM hack
Its records will instead be guarded by the Pentagon, as the Department of Defense takes over their storage. The agency’s network isn’t exactly impenetrable — it had been hacked a few times in the past — but it designed a cloud-based storage system specifically for the records. The White House official who made the announcement said the DoD learned a lot from its own experiences, and the administration wants “to exploit that.”
The president wants to allocate $95 million of the country’s 2017 budget for the endeavor and will submit his proposal to the Congress in the next few weeks. Some of the changes will take effect as early as this year, though it might take a while before everything’s in place.
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