Let’s start on a positive note. The various hackers on a ferocious quest to access your personal information will ultimately be foiled because, at some point, everything will have already been stolen. And that point might come sooner rather than later as the Office of Personnel Management now reports that a recent hack resulted in the exposure of “sensitive information, including the Social Security Numbers of 21.5 million individuals.” That admission led to today’s resignation by OPM Director Katherine Archuleta. This news cycle follows a familiar pattern. 1. Big hack happens. 2. We learn it’s worse than we thought. 3. Someone resigns. 4. OK, we’re safe now.

+ It seems clear that we’ll never be able to protect our data. The best we can do is make sure that each piece of our stolen data doesn’t connect seamlessly to so much of our other data. (Unfortunately, I’m a Humanities major, so I’m not sure how we do that.) Slate’s Lily Hay Newman on the Social Security Number’s insecurities: “We use our SSNs for everything. Data breaches are showing why that’s so terrible.”