Bipartisan House bill calls for federal response to breach of employee data

Legislation offered by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers would require the government to develop an interagency response to a cyber attack that threatens the sensitive data of federal employees, in a move that could set new data-breach reporting requirements and would establish as a matter of national security an attack on federal data systems.

The sponsors of the bill, H.R. 3403 -- Reps. Anthony Brown (D-MD), Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) and Rob Wittman (R-VA) -- represent districts outside of...