The sensitive personal information of 25 million people was stolen in two related hacks into government personnel files in recent months, officials said Thursday, a far larger total than previously acknowledged.
The information belonged to current and former federal workers as well as people who had applied for government jobs or done federal contracting work, the Office of Personnel Management said.
The Social Security numbers of 21 million people were stolen -- 19 million who had applied to have background investigations done, and another 2 million or so who were merely relatives of the applicants.