Cybersecurity
Hacked OPM Data Hasn't Been Shared or Sold, Top Spy-Catcher Says
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Stolen data on 21 million individuals, including Social Security numbers and 5.6 million fingerprints, from a massive 2015 hack against the Office of Personnel Management doesn’t appear to have been shared or sold by the perpetrators, said William Evanina, the head of U.S. counterintelligence.
“Whoever took this data, we’re pretty confident they haven’t shared it,” Evanina, whose title is Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview Thursday in Washington. “It wasn’t a black-market thing, and we don’t think you’re going to see people’s Social Security numbers or credit-card numbers out there.”