Millions of federal employees’ personal info stolen.
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- US officials say nearly every government agency was hacked.
- Personal information of 4 million federal employees was stolen.
- Investigators say the breach was traced to China.
- Officials claim China is building a database of Americans’ info.
- The breach didn’t affect uniformed military personnel.
- The intrusion itself was detected in April 2015.
- It wasn’t until 1 month later that agents learned info was stolen.
- This comes as NSA recently expanded its Internet monitoring.
- NSA can now warrantlessly monitor Americans’ internet traffic.
- As long as the traffic is deemed to be “malicious cyberactivity.”