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Sensitive info of over 21.5M people, including SSNs and fingerprints, stolen in OPM hack

10

Jul

2015

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revealed on Thursday the full extent of the information stolen in the two data breaches it suffered in 2014. In the first breach, personnel data (name, birth date, address, SSNs) of 4.2 million current and former Federal government employees had been stolen. In the second one, the […]

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National Archives and Records Administration computers possibly accessed in connection to OPM breaches

24

Jun

2015

It was vaguely hinted at in House and Senate committee hearings, but it might now be confirmed: the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) data breaches extended into other government organizations. Nextgov.com reported that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) detected unauthorized activity on three desktops. These intrusions resemble the OPM breaches, but in this […]

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Hackers had access to US security clearance data for a year

20

Jun

2015

Hackers who breached a database containing highly personal information on government employees with security clearances had access to the system for about a year before being discovered, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The breach at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management dates back to June or July last year and was only discovered earlier […]

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