Approximately four million former and current federal employees may have had personally identifiable information stolen as part of a massive cyber theft announced by the administration Thursday.
The Office of Personnel Management, the federal government's human resources office, is warning employees who may be affected to be on the lookout for financial fraud. The office, which handles security clearances and other sensitive information, said it identified that its systems had been breached in April.
"Protecting our federal employee data from malicious cyber incidents is of the highest priority at OPM," Katherine Archuleta, the office's director, said in a statement.
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