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Chinese Hack of U.S. Agency Ends In Multimillion Dollar Settlement

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Parties associated with a class-action claim over the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach revealed in court filings that they have actually reached a $63 million settlement in the matter. Complainants, consisting of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), took legal action against OPM in July 2015 after the U.S. federal government exposed that hackers had actually taken the individual info of over 21 million existing, previous, and potential federal staff members and members of their households. The files were presumably taken by Chinese hackers, who set up malware and drawn out…

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