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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

OPM finds five-fold increase in fingerprint data stolen during data hack

Four million more current and former federal employees are at additional risk of identity theft than first thought with the discovery that more victims of the Office of Personnel Management data breach had their fingerprints stolen.

OPM announced today that hackers took the fingerprint data of 5.6 million employees as opposed to the 1.1 million people initially determined to have had this data stolen back when the agency announced the details of the second breach in July.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is disturbing. And if you've registered at PRMC lately you could be the next victim. They make you get a hand scan. Huge privacy invasion and it is like giving them the digital key to everything about your life in the Orwellian world we now call home.

Anonymous said...

This just shows the total incompetence of government data collection and maintenance.

lmclain said...

And MILLIONS turned over their most personal info (SSN, DOB, bank acct numbers, address, job info, family info, etc., to these very same people, who .....lol....promised it was secure.
They could find a way to screw up a bag of sand.
Have I mentioned hanging ALL of them?
Gonna happen sooner or later. Lets try getting ahead of the curve for once....