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Cyberexpert says OPM hack affected hundreds of millions

By Rudy Takala
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Cyberexpert says OPM hack affected hundreds of millions

An official with cybersecurity company Symantec speculates that up to 275 million people had information included in the Office of Personnel Management files breached by hackers.

“I think [OPM] is the most underreported breach there is,” said Robert Myles, Symantec’s national public safety practice manager, at the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials conference in Washington on Wednesday.

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