Millions of fingerprints stolen in US government hack

September 25, 2015 00:25

Hackers who breached US government networks stole far more fingerprint records than first thought, officials have said.

In a statement, the White House said more than 5.6 million fingerprint records were stolen from the Office of Personnel Management.

An initial investigation suggested only 1.1 million were lost.

The OPM acts as the personnel office for the US government and keeps records on 21.5 million federal staff.

The OPM attack was uncovered in April this year and saw attackers make off with ID and security clearance information about US government staff.

Social security numbers, names, addresses, health, financial and biometric data were all taken.

Fingerprint records were also stolen and the continuing investigation into the breach has revealed that far more went missing than initially thought.

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