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It was a coordinated attack using multiple zero-day exploits (holes in code not yet known by the target). You have to pay tons of money or infiltrate security firms to get such info.

A nation-state with vast resources will eventually break into ANY system as long as a data link to the internet exists. And even without a link to the internet, there are more than enough spies to infiltrate isolated networks.

So what do we do? It’s not like we can go back to the days of paper files...

>>So what do we do?

Well, not letting Termites like Eddy Thnowden and Bwadley Manning into the woodwork might be a start. Who vetted those two - and how many other treasonous pinktard punks are still operating undetected?

My IT guy has my systems setup so any bulk transfer of data is stopped on it's way out through the routers and/or modems. I can see the router traffic on a popup on my desktop or windows phone. He has a program that watches all the router ports for traffic. Not sure how that would of worked in the OPM case. Can't recall what size transfer is trapped but he tells me it was/is easy to do. We have one system for e-payments where it actually disconnects from outside with a hard relay if an attack is detected beyond the normal net garbage. Takes intervention by one of us to restart.

Our next step will be to store only encrypted data bases that use a scrambling technique to segment the data when stored. That means that you can copy a certain file but it will be disconnected garbage.