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!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([OPM]) is an [Independent United States Federal Agency] that manages the [United States federal government]'s civilian workforce.
[{$pagename}] provides federal human resources [policy], oversight and support, and tends to [Health Care|HealthCare], insurance and retirement benefits and services for federal government [employees].
[{$pagename}] is headed by a director, who is nominated by the [President of the United States of America] and confirmed by the [United States Senate]. !! [2015|Year 2015] [Data Breach]
In June [2015|Year 2015], the Office of Personnel Management announced that it had discovered in April [2015|Year 2015] that it had been hacked more than a year earlier in a [Data Breach], resulting in the theft of approximately 4 [million] personnel records handled by the office. The Washington Post has reported that the [attack] originated in [China], citing unnamed government officials. By July 9, [2015|Year 2015] the estimate of stolen records had increased to 21.5 [million], including those of current government personnel and people who had undergone background checks.
New updates regarding this security breach came to light on September 24, [2015|Year 2015]. The agency then indicated that additional evidence showed that 5.6 [million] people's [fingerprints] were stolen as part of the hacks, more than five times the 1.1 [million] originally estimated. The total number of individuals whose records were disclosed in whole or part, including [Social Security Numbers] and addresses, remained at 21.5 million.
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