WASHINGTON — FBI director James Comey says more information should be released soon on the recent hack attack on the Office of Personnel Management, which he calls an “enormous breach.”
Comey says adversaries may have accessed decades of personal and sensitive information on federal employees, as well as anyone noted in their background checks, such as spouses, siblings, children and references.
“So the numbers quickly grow far beyond the number of federal employees, which is millions over the last 20 years. And so it is a very, very big number. It is a huge deal,” Comey told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee while testifying Wednesday.
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