Washington - Hackers who infiltrated the US government's human resource records have sensitive information on all federal employees, an American union said on Thursday.
In a letter to authorities, the American Federation of Government Employees said it believes hackers -- who others have linked to China -- obtained confidential identification numbers that each American needs to get a job, a driving license or a bank account.
"We believe that Social Security numbers were not encrypted, a cybersecurity failure that is absolutely indefensible and outrageous," union president David Cox said in a letter to the government's Office of Personnel Management.
"The hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to one million former federal employees."
The union said that data concerning an individual's address, date of birth, salary and military record where also compromised.
The US government last week admitted that data linked to at least four million current and former federal employees was hacked.
AFP
