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Official overseeing breached OPM computer systems retires just ahead of House hearing

The Washington Post: A key official overseeing the government computer systems whose breaching resulted in the theft of the personal information of more than 22 million people announced her retirement effective immediately on Monday, two days before she was scheduled to appear at a House hearing.

Donna Seymour, chief information officer at the Office of Personnel Management, was in charge of the two databases breached in 2014, cyberthefts that were discovered and disclosed in mid-2015. That announcement and the concerns about the effect on those people and on national security resulted in a series of contentious Capitol Hill hearings and repeated calls by the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that she be fired — calls that the Obama administration resisted.

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