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Hackers stole security check info on at least 25,000 DHS employees

Hackers stole security check info on at least 25,000 DHS employees

August 30, 2014

On August 2, Department of Homeland Security officials revealed that the agency’s contractor for conducting security clearance background checks had been hacked, and an unknown number of DHS employees’ personal data from those investigations had been stolen-potentially by a state-sponsored hacker.