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Government security practices have been audited in the past and it's shown that the number of threats is increasing, but their preventative measures aren't improving.

If It were their very own personal credentials Included In the breach, It'd be a totally different story.

At the least, they'd Immediately upgrade their threat & Intelligence monitoring and put their cyber Incident response team Into action, Inclusive of cyber security training for all staff. Fine-tuning their honeypots (If any are In place to begin with), would also be part of their security measures.