“We have to all own this problem and it will take all of us to fix the problem,â Burns said at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday on the OPM breach.
Aliya Sternstein writes Burns told lawmakers more than 75 percent of privileged users at the Interior Department now use personal identity verification cards and passwords to log into the departmentâs computers.
âWhen the incident happened, it just created a different lens on looking at the need, and I think it made it crystal clear to everybody why it was so critical that we achieve two-factor authentication,â Burns said.
Burns also told lawmakers the hackers who copied OPMâs database with a contractorâs password left the Interior Departmentâs records and other data intact, Sternstein reports.