(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government’s human resources directorresigned Friday, a day after disclosing that hackers stole personaldata for more than 22 million people from her agency in one of theworst security breaches in history.
Katherine Archuleta, director of the Office of PersonnelManagement, stepped down after several lawmakers in both partiescomplained that she had failed to install appropriate safeguardsfor the government’s records and did not quickly detect or addressthe breach.
President Barack Obama, who appointed Archuleta in 2013,accepted the resignation as his administration pledged to step upits cybersecurity efforts and help the 22.1 million people whosedata was stolen.
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