{"id":164885,"date":"2015-07-12T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=164885"},"modified":"2015-07-12T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T15:46:28","slug":"data-breach-affected-21-5-million-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/data-breach-affected-21-5-million-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Data breach affected 21.5 million in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Personal information of 21.5 million Americans has been stolen allegedly by Chinese hackers, says the Office of Personnel Management.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following its long-awaited damage assessment, the office said on Thursday that hackers, who breached US government databases, stole information of those people both inside and outside government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Throughout this investigation, OPM has been committed to providing information in a timely, transparent and accurate manner,&#8221; OPM said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If an individual underwent a background investigation through OPM in 2000 or afterwards &#8230; it is highly likely that the individual is impacted by this cyber breach,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The people affected include 19.7 million, who underwent a background investigation, as well as 1.8 million others, mostly spouses or cohabitants of applicants for government jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The figure is six times as much the number announced by the office last month when it first acknowledged that a breach had taken place. The OPM said then the breach had affected 4.2 million current and former federal employees.<\/p>\n<p>The office says that the hackers had rummaged through its various databases for over a year.<\/p>\n<p>The breach has resulted in a series of hearings in Congress and harsh criticism of the state of US cyber-defenses with lawmakers and US officials calling it as a significant threat to national security.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/09\/419549\/US-government-Chinese-hackers-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal information of 21.5 million Americans has been stolen allegedly by Chinese hackers, says the Office of Personnel Management. Following its long-awaited damage assessment, the office said on Thursday that hackers, who breached US government databases, stole information of those people both inside and outside government. &#8220;Throughout this investigation, OPM has been committed to providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-164885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}