Investigators conducting the probe into the Chinese cyberattack against Office of Personnel Management computer networks say the damage is far worse than Obama administration political appointees have let on.
Officially, OPM has said the number of compromised records in at least two agency databases includes the loss of personal information on 4.2 million current and former federal workers.
However, an internal OPM assessment disclosed to Congress by the FBI puts the figure at as many as 18 million federal workers whose sensitive information was lost as part of what investigators say was a Chinese intelligence-gathering operation to build a database on millions of Americans.
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