the office of personnel management, the director, catherine archuleta, is stepping down. center of one of the largest data breaches right now in u.s. history. more than 21 million people are believed to have had their information compromised or outright stolen. that's five times the number we originally heard was the breach. senior white house correspondent jim acosta standing by with more. there were calls for her to step down but at the time it didn't look like there was going to be movement. then this. >> that's right. house speaker john boehner was calling for catherine archuleta's resignation yesterday and during a conversation call with reporters about that massive data breach that opm announced, every federal employee that's gone through a background check since 2000, catherine archuleta said she was not stepping down but a white house official said in just the last few minutes that catherine archuleta, the director of the office of personnel management, has tentered her resignation to president obama. he has accepted that resignation that is effective end of busin

note, catherine archuleta was the political director of president obama's 2012 campaign.hey are moving in a different direction right now, someone who has experience with these types of issues. scarlet: how unsettling has this whole ordeal been for every american? how terribly this agency has handled this. what are they going to do about it? the numbers i just laid out, the ability to get their arms around the scope of this problem. you talk about who this is actually impacting. joss ernest, the white house press secretary technologies doubt it was breached in this. a number of capitol hill staffers i talked to, including those involved in intelligence matters receive notices their information has been breached. you talking about background checks on people that work and indices, their information has been breached. one of the biggest questions right now is just trying to get around the scope of what this actually means and then figure out what to do to change it going forward. there is a lot of steps left to go in this process. matt: thank you very much. phil mattingly i

. >> catherine archuleta has resigned as head of personnel management. data hack of government servers was more massive than originally thought. tom ackerman has the story. >> just a day after saying she wouldn't resign, the white house announced that catherine archuleta was stepping down effective immediately. >> she recognized as the white house does that the challenge facing the personnel management require a manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences. >> the move follows disclosure that another cyber breach of her agency's david beckham was far more sweeping than the first one revealed in april. in testimony to congress last month, archuleta blamed outdated technology with the inability to protect information. >> we have discovered these intrusions and. >> it includes wednesday james comey told the senate intelligence community in a the impact could be more widespread. >> it's not just my identity that's affected. i've got siblings, five kids, all of that is in there so the numbers quickly grow far beyond the number of federal employees

catherine archuleta said she will not resign, said she is committed to doing the work she wants to do. she and her top yet deputies are being asked to resign because of this huge grief. they are saying china's responsible, china says they are not. jonathan elias, abc 7 news. montgomery county also developing, the fbi says it what it plans to attack americans over the july for holiday. -- the fbi says they thwarted plans to attack americans over the fourth of july holiday. first, brianne carter is on the national mall with what we know about the foiled plots. brianne: maureen, 10 people were arrested within the weeks leading up to the fourth of july holiday. that holiday where lots of people were on high alert. many talking about the possibility of a threat. we know that 10 arrested. this news coming from the f ei director earlier today -- the fbi director james cody earlier today. he would not give additional information about possible attacks or targets. he said some of those who were arrested, it was believed perhaps they had been planning something, but others were arrested in conn

catherine archuleta stepping down as head of the opm. in some cases, even fingerprints stolen from federal databases. >>> and pope francis asking for forgiveness, today visiting one of bolivia's most dangerous prisons. >>> back here at home tonight, a celebration for the women of team usa. something we haven't seen since 19 19 1960 a ticker tape parade for women. paula faris takes us down the route. >> reporter: today, history was made. among the smiles and the cheers, the team spirit, and the ticker tape, the u.s. women's champion soccer team honored with a parade right through the big apple. ending at city hall with an electric rally. >> i can't discount how important you guys were, the fans, bringing home this world cup for us. >> reporter: and it was those little faces, waving flags, smiling in the crowd. >> usa! >> reporter: -- that shined bright everywhere we looked. >> raise your hand if you play soccer. >> reporter: in the 129-year history of new york city ticker tape parades, never before has a women's team been honored. that's

catherine archuleta stepped down today under immense pressure following two massive cyber attacks thathed her agency and exposed the personal information of 10s of millions of u.s. government workers. tom ackerman has the story. >> reporter: just a day after saying she wouldn't resign, the white house announced that catherine archuleta was stepping down effective immediately. >> she recognizes as does the white house that this requires a manager with a special set of skills and experiences. >> reporter: the move following disclosure that another cyber breach of her agency's database was far more swing than the first one revealed in april. in to him congress last month archuleta blamed outdated technology for the inability to protect the information. >> we discovered these intrusions because of our increased efforts in the last 18 months to approve cyber security at o.p.m. not despite them. >> reporter: besides social security numbers the compromised data included current and former government employees answers to questions about drug use financial problems and contact with foreigners.

. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after insisting she would not step down, catherine archuleta came to the white house and resigned under pressure. >> given the urgent challenges that they're facing right now, it's clear that a manager with a specialized set of skills and experiences is needed. >> reporter: under archuleta, highly personal information of nearly 22 million americans who had federal background checks got into the hands of hackers. the question remains, will this resignation fix what's wrong? >> one of the fundamental problems is they're still feeding the beast. they're still putting really sensitive information into a system that we know is not secure. >> reporter: right now opm plans to offer victims three years identity theft insurance. but democratic members of congress say only lifetime protection from cyber criminals is enough. >> they may do nothing now, but they may do something years from now. and we think the government owes our federal employees and retirees at least that. >> reporter: an acting director has already been named to replace archuleta, and she has

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i think they recognized it was much bigger than they said and that's one of the reasons why catherine archuleta had to leave, because you had democrats and republicans on the hill questioning both competence and their straightforwardness whether they told the full story early and once the news came out that it was 22 million people, it was -- the writing was on the wall, it was clear she had to leave. gwen: just yesterday she was on a conference call with reporters saying i'm not going anywhere. what happened in between? john: i think the pressure from people like mark warner, democratic senator from virginia babra mikulski, democratic senator from maryland. both virginia and maryland are chock-full with federal workers and when you had prominent democrats, members of the president's party, saying that she needed to go, saying this had been an outrageous violation, i think she finally got that signal that wasn't impressed on the conference call and the white house today at the briefing josh ernest said it was quite clear new skills were needed. that's a sign the white house was not a bystander

around by or chew let 5678 a day after saying she wouldn't resign the white house announced that catherine archuleta stepping down effective immediately. >> they recognize is, recognizes, as the white house does that the challenges facing the office of personnel management require a manager with a specialized of skills and experiences. >> reporter: the move follows disclosure that another cyber breach of her agency's database was far more swing than the first one revealed in available. in testimony to congress last moth archuleta blamed outdated technology for the other inability to protect the information. >> we discovered these intrusions because of our increased efforts in the last 18 months for improve souper cube never at o.p. march. not despite them. >> reporter: besides social security numbers the compromised bait date a include current and former government employees officers to questions about drug use financial problems. and contact with foreigners, on wednesday fbi director james comey told the senate intelligent committee it can be more wide suppress it's not just my identity afternooned

catherine archuleta stepping down as director of the opm. 24 hours after we reported the hacking attack was bigger than we knew. 21.5 million federal employees, with personal data stolen. in some cases, even fingerprints stolen from federal databases. >>> and pope francis asking for forgiveness for the grave sins committed against native americans, today visiting one of bolivia's most dangerous prisons. meeting with inmates and their families, hugging a young child. urging them not to give up dignity. >>> back here at home tonight, a celebration for the women of team usa. something we haven't seen since 1960, a ticker tape parade solely for women athletes. new york city's famed canyon of heroes transformed into the canyon of heroines. paula faris takes us down the route. >> reporter: today, history was made. among the smiles and the cheers, the team spirit, and the ticker tape, the u.s. women's champion soccer team honored with a parade right through the big apple. ending at city hall with an electric rally. >> i can't discount how important you guys were, the fans, bringing home this w

. >> yesterday catherine archuleta said she would not step down. what changed?it was a matter of time. in this type of situation where an agency head is under fire is the members of her own team and other democrats were calling for her to step aside. republicans were of course as well. and when your own party ranging from a couple of house democrats and senator mike warner said she had to go it was a matter of time. huge distraction and fix the problem. and what does it mean and who was behind it. a lot of people suspect that china is behind it. and there is a lot of unanswered. she had lost credibility. nbasically anybody who filed an application with the federal government may have personal information in the possession of the cyber thieves. and there are a couple of members of congress who said they have notified by opm and they never worked for any administration. the question is how did their information get breached? we are just really starting to get a handle on this. and one of the questions, one of them. we had the news of 4 million a while back and now

i know in her comments, catherine archuleta has said she has full confidence of the cio .he name escapes me at the moment. i cannot speak to whether or not a government focus on diversity has any role to play in this. i do not think it does. i certainly know that in the private sector you find ceos who are over their head on a regular basis. this was preventable but the best thing that hindsight gives us is how it was preventable. this was a concerted effort by some nationstate to create an incredibly sophisticated piece of malware for a specific purpose. on the one hand, we should be expecting that. on the other hand, if we had protected this from this particular hack, then you have to assume that data collected will get out. on the one hand, while the feelings of frustration directed at opium are legitimate, there's something legitimate about them there are a lot of gaps in the way that office communicated with people. the fact that just last week catherine archuleta was saying -- or even just a few days ago, that she did not say she would resign and then she did resign.

. >>> the head of the government's personnel office catherine archuleta stepping down from her post announcementg one day after the revelation hackers got their hands on the personal information of more than 21 million americans. that is a much larger number than original reported. members of both parties in congress were calling for her resignation. the deputy director of the department will now take over starting tomorrow. >>> unprecedented verdict today in a new castle county cyber stalking case. a jury convicted three members of a delaware family of stalking and conspiracy. jurors found the actions of lenore matusiewicz, her son david and her daughter amy gonzales led to the deaths of two women. david's ex-wife and her friend were shot and killed by david's father thomas outside wilmington courthouse in february 2013. thomas matusiewicz then killed himself after a gun battle with police. it is the first american conviction for cyber stalking resulting in a death. >>> and some traffic troubles this friday evening in wilmington delaware. state police say an east penn railway freight train dera

arising chorus of calls for her firing the president accepted the recentition nation of catherine archuletaarnings dating back eight years over how vulnerable the cybersecurity was to hackers, also after charges she may have misled the bub and congress about just how deep this massive hack really went. we now know the actual number of soldiers diplomats, cia operatives fbi agents and other federal employees ensnared in this sprawling hack exceeds 21.5 million. let's bring in republican congressman for utah jason chaffetz cho chairs the house oversight committee, thank you for being here. i know you call for her to be fired when director archuleta appeared before your committee, you want 32 million people had had their information stolen. the information we have now is about 22 million. is opm still not disclosing everything? >> director archuleta testified in february they had the records for 32 million people. if the number is only 22 million, count our blessings, but that's still an unbelievable amount of people who are affected. >> do you think what she said in front of your committee co

director of office of personnel management, catherine archuleta.own one day after she was vowing to keep her job. this after that massive data breach that effected 20 million americans with their personal information, medical history social security information breached in that security breach as well. >>> on to a major medical story. the fda is warning anyone who takes painkillers, codeld medicine, you may be taking a bigger risk that than you realize. advil, aleve, and other over the counter ansaids have long warned they might increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. now the fda says those drug s do increase your risk. one agency doctor's warning, quote, everyone may be at risk even people without an underlying risk for cardiovascular disease. drugs taken by millions more dangerous than first realized. joining me now is dr. dan simon, cardiologist at the university hospital case medical center and also the president of the herrington heart and vascular institute. doctor, thank you for being with us here to put perspective with this. and let's

catherine archuleta, the agency that was hacked submitted her resignation friday afternoon.ails of 21.5 million employees were stolen in that cyber attack. let's go to kristen welker and get to the latest on this report of the killing there of a leader of the islamic state. the latest on the administration's handling of this data breach. what do you know about that? >> administration taking a couple of steps for one president obama appointed beth cobert who was the deputy director at omb, to take over opm in the interim until president obama can appoint someone permanent. we know that the federal government is offering employees who may have had their information hacked three years of protection identity theft protection. other protections. they say at this point in time there is no indication that that information has been used for any nefarious reason. however, there is a lot of concern on both sides of pennsylvania avenue and you have some lawmakers including some democrats saying that the administration needs to do more that ultimately that protection should be in effect

. >> data breach effecting 22 million americans catherine archuleta. through the office of personnel management since 2000 may have had social security numbers. fingerprints. health records and financial histories stolen by hackers. possibly from china. and a hero's welcome in new york city for the world champion women's u.s. soccer team, can gety rained down as tens of thousands descended on the parade route. what's being better than being honored ticker tape parade how about hitting the stage with taylor swift? ♪ take a bow. [cheers and applause] >> the team joining taylor swift during her hit song style at her concert at metlife stadium in new jersey. taylor even got to hold the trophy herself. these girls are pinching themselves. this is the first ticker tape parade in new york city. the 206th one we have ever had. never has a female sports team been honored until now. >> the power of taylor swift. >> girl power. >> let's talk about ariana grande you know the story she was there licking donuts at a donut shop this week. >> that wasn't the worst of

[applause] >> office of personnel director catherine archuleta will design today. >> marine corps commandantseph dunford went to the senate armed services committee this week to answer question about his nomination to head the joint chiefs of staff. president obama wants him to replace barton bans the later this summer. committee members asked general dunford his assessment of various national security concerns and needs of the biggest security risk now is russia not isis. at the hearing is about 2.5 hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> aborting. the senate armed service committee meets today to consider the nomination of general joseph dunford for the joint chiefs of staff. general dunford is no stranger to the members of this committee. we've known about commandant of the marine corps and commander and nasa in a stand in many posts before that. he's a warrior and later the highest quality and we are grateful for his 38 years of distinguished service. we are also thankful for the sacrifice