(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government’s humanresources director resigned Friday, a White House official said, aday after disclosing that hackers stole personal data for more than22 million people in one of the worst security breaches inhistory.
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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