WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OPM DATA BREACH As the relationship between humanity and technology develops, an emergent area of concern lies in the security of the information ferried over and handled by this technology. A myriad of information security and data breaches reported upon by news media in the recent past has had the simultaneously fortunate and unfortunate effect of bringing information and network security into the public consciousness. One such incident was the United States (US) Office of the Personnel Management (OPM) data breach. While there are many aspects of the OPM data breach that are notable, chief among them is that the perpetrator of this data breach has been widely attributed to China. As China increases its economic clout and develops its technological capabilities, its international presence is becoming more and more pronounced—and not always in the best light. Sanger (2018) has noted that by 2009, Google executives...