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Second OPM Hack Confirmed

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

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Second OPM Hack Confirmed

A separate intrusion into the networks of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was confirmed by the White House on Monday.OPM announced that while investigating the first intrusion that compromised records of current and former federal employees additional systems were compromised (Defense Daily, June 5).“These systems included those that contain information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective federal government employees, as well as other individuals for whom a federal background investigation was conducted,” OPM said in…

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