12-06-2015 18:55 via feeds.theguardian.com

Government hack now believed to affect up to 14 million federal workers

Hackers may possess ‘all personnel data for every federal employee’Harry Reid says that the hack was carried out by ‘the Chinese’As many as 14 million current and former civilian US government employees had their personal information exposed to hackers, according to two people who were briefed on the investigation, a far higher figure than the 4 million the Obama administration initially disclosed.The newer estimates put the number of compromised records at between 9 million and 14 milli
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