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title: "Foreign cyberthreats: A reason to improve data security"
description: The data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has unearthed an inconvenient truth about the current state of foreign cyberthreats.
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# Foreign cyberthreats: A reason to improve data security

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The data breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has unearthed an inconvenient truth about the current state of foreign cyberthreats.

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