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The government’s personnel office still isn’t adequately protecting its computer networks two years after a massive data breach that compromised highly sensitive security clearance information of over 20 million current and former federal employees and their families, a congressional watchdog reported Thursday.

The Office of Personnel Management failed to encrypt data stored in one of its high-value systems that would be most attractive to hackers, for example, and failed to encrypt data as it transited in and out of another high-value system, according to the Government Accountability Office report.