Union Says Hackers Have Data on Every Federal Employee

 

By Andrea Mitchell, Matthew DeLuca and Phil Helsel

 

U.S. officials say they are still trying to assess the damage caused by a massive cyberattack on the federal government, while a union representing federal workers on Thursday claimed that the information of every current and retired federal employee was exposed.

"We believe that Social Security numbers were not encrypted, a cybersecurity failure that is absolutely indefensible and outrageous," J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said in a letter to the Office of Professional Management.

The breach of OPM data is considered to be the largest cyberattack in U.S. history, and the office has said around four million current and former federal workers may have had their personal information compromised. 

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