OPM: 21.5 Million People Affected By Background Check Breach
by KEITH WAGSTAFF and MATTHEW DELUCA
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced on Thursday that sensitive information including Social Security numbers for 21.5 million people was among the data lost in a breach of its background investigation database.
An investigation into this and a separate breach -- that one involving information on 4.2 million people -- concluded that the two were "separate but related," OPM said.
The new numbers expanding the scope of the attacks come one day after FBI Director James Comey called the hack an "enormous breach" to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, saying "millions and millions" of government records were stolen, including his own.
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