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A massive data breach was just waiting to happen.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

The daily look at the issues of Americans car about most.

It took three months for the Office of Personnel Management to discover

key records of at least four million federal employees were being hacked. Defenses were so

weak one cybersecurity expert says the mystery's not how they got cleaned out, but what took

the Chinese so long? The Obama administration has not officially said the

attack came from China, and it's unclear if the objective was financial crime or intelligence

gathering. Whatever the motives, will hackers always be ahead of the game? Today's talking point,

the escape of two killers from New York's maximum security prison unfolded like a Hollywood movie.

First, here's the news.

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Program Fund. Hello again, Warren. I'll knee back with To the Point. Millions of U.S.

government personnel records were not as well protected as most Americans' online bank accounts.

That's just one embarrassing lesson from a massive hacking attack that probably came from China.

What was it for? Is cybersecurity finally being improved? Today's talking point, two imprisoned

killers left crude dummies behind

in their cots, used power tools to carve holes in their cells, then crawled through a pipe

and out of a manhole. What does it take to escape from maximum security? First, this news update

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