21.5 million records stolen from U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Almost everyone underwent background security investigation for government jobs through OPM since 2000. Majority of records were for background investigation applicants. 1.8 million were from nonapplicants — friends and family of applicants who would also be investigated as part of the process. OPM concluded “with high confidence” that hackers got away with sensitive information including Social Security numbers on 21.6 million people. 1 million fingerprints also got away.”]

