Massive cybersecurity breach raises concerns about what hackers stole

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A massive hack of government personnel files is being treated as the work of foreign spies who could possibly use the information to sneak their way into more-secure computers and plunder U.S. secrets. 

Dan Payne, a senior counterintelligence official for the Director of National Intelligence, told federal employees Friday to change their passwords, put fraud alerts on their credit reports and watch for attempts by foreign intelligence services to exploit them.

"Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information," he said. "You are mistaken."

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