There's nothing unusual about this breach.  Many others have already occurred, and many more  are coming.  This is a consequence of a decision made in the Defense Department in the 1990s that our cyberwar resources would go into offensive capability.  At that time, most Americans still believed that the rest of the world wouldn't really be able to catch up with us, so cyber defense wasn't a priority.  Well, guess what?  "They" are now much better than us.  And worse is coming.  The next presidential election will see political cyberwar taken to new levels.  We have made  our society, and ourselves, hostages to this digital nervous system whose growth and use we can't regulate. The effect on our political system is already adequately displayed in the late farcical election.  Trump's very successful illusionism sroked massive anxiety, confusion and longing for something that at least looks solid.  It is not just our data being stolen, but our thinking becoming muddled.