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According to The Washington Post:
The massive hack last year of the Office of Personnel Management's system containing security clearance information affected 21.5 million people, including current and former employees, contractors and their families and friends, officials said Thursday.
That is in addition to a separate hack – also last year — of OPM's personnel database that affected 4.2 million people. That number was previously announced.
Together, the breaches arguably comprise the most consequential cyber intrusion in U.S. government history. Administration officials have privately said they were traced to the Chinese government and appear to be for purposes of traditional espionage.
Update: Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta finally resigned mid-Friday.
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday July 12 2015, @04:07AM
If you'd RTFA, you'd have seen "...every file associated with an OPM-managed security clearance application since 2000 "
Glad my security clearance was processed back in the early '60s. Stopped working on anything that would require such by 1966.
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