How Did Hackers Get The Personal Data of Millions of U.S. Government Employees?

And, more importantly, what does this mean going forward?

If you're a U.S. federal government employee, or have ever worked for the federal government, it's a pretty safe bet hackers now have your social security number, birthday, and home address. An agency called the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which is effectively the government's HR department, was systematically hacked for more than a year. The motives of the hackers, believed to be from China, remains unknown. Records belonging to more than 4 million people were stolen.

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