The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said those affected were 19.7 million people who underwent background checks and 1.8 million others, mostly spouses or co-habitants of applicants. ....
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This is in addition to the information of about 4.2 million current and former federal workers stolen in a separate but related incident, revealed by the OPM last month.
There is thought to be overlap between the two groups.
House Speaker John Boehner called on Thursday for the firing of OPM director Katherine Archuleta.
The US has fingered China as the main suspect in the hack, but the Beijing foreign ministry said the allegation was "absurd logic".
The OPM said it was in June, while investigating the first breach, that it discovered the cyber-attack affecting 21.5 million people.
It included the fingerprints of some 1.1 million people. Usernames and passwords were also stolen.
The OPM said there was no evidence that health, financial, payroll or retirement records of federal personnel or applicants had been compromised in the wider attack.
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