The Obama administration said today that hackers stole Social Security Numbers from more than 21 million people and took other sensitive information when government computer systems were compromised.

On July 9, OPM announced that more than 19 million who had applied for background investigations were affected. Government officials also said nearly 2 million people were also affected who weren’t applicants, but rather spouses or other family members.

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