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Hackers Stole U.S. Data on More Than 20 Million People

Vehicles drive past the Theodore Roosevelt Building, headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in Washington, D.C. — Vehicles drive past the Theodore Roosevelt Building, headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in Washington, D.C.
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Toluse Olorunnipa and Chris Strohm

July 9, 2015, 7:42 PM UTCUpdated onJuly 9, 2015, 10:52 PM UTC

Hackers stole Social Security numbers and other personal data for about 22.1 million people in breaches of the U.S. government’s personnel office, the Obama administration said.

The total includes new data related to the breach of security clearance applications as well as information previously released on the theft of personnel records, the Office of Personnel Management said Thursday.