fingerprint-breach

U.S. Gov't Admits Fingerprint Records of 5.6 Million Federal Employees Stolen in Hack

Melissa Cronin · 09/23/15 09:00PM

One of the worst government data breaches in history was at first thought to have leaked the fingerprints of 1.1 million. Now the government has announced that the hack, coupled with a second related breach, actually affected a staggering 21.5 million federal employees and their families — a full 7 percent of the U.S. population. Among those, an estimated 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen.