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Opm Chief Rebuffs Lawmakers On Scope Of Cyber Breach


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Archuleta testifies before a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee concerning a recently revealed data breach affecting millions of federal employees' personal data, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonBy Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the Office of Personnel Management refused on Wednesday to estimate how many millions of Americans were affected by recent attacks on her agency's computers and rejected as premature reports 18 million were compromised. Under blistering attack from lawmakers exasperated by unanswered questions about the massive cybersecurity breach, OPM Director Katherine Archuleta conceded the number of people whose data was hacked could increase from initial reports. OPM said this month it was victim of a cyber attack involving personnel data on 4.2 million current and former federal employees.




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