More than 21 million people have had their Social Security numbers, health history and other sensitive data stolen by hackers. This data breach is believed to be the biggest in U.S. history. In addition to personal information of Americans, the hackers also obtained user names and passwords that prospective employees used to fill out their background investigation forms. “FBI Director James Comey, in a briefing with reporters Thursday, described the scope of the OPM breach as “huge” and called it “a very big deal from a national-security perspective and a counterintelligence perspective.”
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