U.S. Government wins coveted "My Little Pwnie" award for best hack of the year

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 And by "coveted", I mean "really, really wish this hadn't happened":

Black Hat 2015 For the past nine years Black Hat has staged its Pwnie Awards, devoted to recognizing the best and worst aspects of computer security, and this year's winner of the least welcome award is the US government's Office of Personnel Management.

The OPM won in the "Most EPIC Fail" category after hackers, possibly from the Chinese government, ransacked the agency's servers to steal confidential information on up to 21.5 million past and present government employees.

"The OPM let you and everyone else down. So much so, that the USA government might actually be pulling covert agents out of foreign countries. USA #1," noted the panel of judges.

The hack caused the resignation of the OPM's head and a frantic effort by other government departments to get themselves protected. No one from the OPM was present to pick up their pony-shaped award.

Let's just let that run over the tongue, shall we?  No one from the OPM was present to pick up their pony-shaped award.

Lulz.

Epic, epic fail, and recognized as such.