According to the Office of Inspector General, the Census Bureau missed opportunities to limit its vulnerability to the attack and didn't discover and report the attack in a timely manner. In a written response, acting Census Bureau director Ron Jarmin reiterated that none of the systems used for the 2020 census were compromised, nor was the nation's once-a-decade head count affected in any way. “Furthermore, no systems or data maintained and managed by the Census Bureau on behalf of the public were compromised, manipulated or lost," Jarmin wrote. The bureau had previously released state-level data, and the information released Wednesday were summaries of county and tract level data. The Census Bureau said in a statement that the measurements reflect what was expected in a “normally distributed population."

Source: ABC News August 18, 2021 16:27 UTC