Parties involved in a class-action lawsuit over the 2015 Office of Personnel Management (OPM) breach announced in court filings on May 6 that they have reached a $63 million settlement in the matter.
Plaintiffs, including the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), sued OPM in July 2015 after the U.S. government revealed that hackers had taken the personal information of over 21 million current, former, and prospective federal employees and members of their families.
The files were allegedly stolen by Chinese hackers, who installed malware and extracted sensitive information such as birthdates, Social Security numbers, 5.6 million sets of fingerprints, psychological and emotional health information, and personal histories of “gambling compulsions, marital troubles, and past illicit drug and alcohol use,” according to court records.
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