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OPM Director Resigns Amid Cyber Breaches

Thursday, July 16th, 2015

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Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), resigned her position July 10, a day after the scope of the second OPM hack was disclosed.The resignation, effective the end of the day July 10, comes a day after the agency revealed the full extent of the second breach to its networks: 21.5 million individuals who sought background investigations for government postings since 2000 and some of their relatives have had their personal information such as social security numbers…

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