Sean Gallagher:

Because of the lack of multifactor authentication ... the attackers would have been able to use [stolen] credentials at will to access systems from within and potentially even from outside the network.

Jeb Bush:

Society needs to relearn the art of public and private disapproval and how to make those who engage in undesirable behavior feel some sense of shame.

Tom Ley:

You can't even bother to set up two-factor authentication? Fucking Twitter has two-factor authentication, man.

Malena Carollo:

Significantly better forms of network protections may not come for "years and years," said Tony Scott, CIO of OMB.

Sean Gallagher:

Interior CIO Sylvia Burns ... [said] that some of the legacy systems ... would require a full rewrite.

Michael S. Schmidt:

[It] would represent the first known case of corporate espionage in which a professional sports team hacked the network of another team.

The intrusion did not appear to be sophisticated, the law enforcement officials said.

Eric Katz:

She [said] she was "doing her best" to deal with the fallout of the hack, to which Mulvaney responded: "That's what frightens me ... that this is the best of your ability."

Ken Dilanian:

Last year, an IG audit recommended that OPM shut down some of its networks because they were so vulnerable. Archuleta declined, saying it would interfere with the agency's mission.

The hackers were already inside her networks ...

Sean Gallagher:

A consultant [said] he found the ... administrator ... "in Argentina and his co-worker ... in [China] ... had direct access to every row of data ... they were root.

Xeni Jardin:

This internet thing is out of control.

David Cole:

It is disappointing, if not surprising, that [officials] see a need for public debate only when new technologies may impair their ability to monitor us, and not when such technologies enhance their monitoring.

Brendan Sasso:

It won't be so easy for the US to express indignant outrage just because it's on the opposite side of the surveillance this time.