U.S. personnel chief resigns in light of massive data breach

Katherine Archuleta, head of the White House's Office of Personnel Management, resigned Friday, one day after announcing that the personal information of 21.5 million government background check applicants had been hacked, a White House official told The New York Times. Archuleta has faced calls for her resignation since June, when a related cyber-attack compromised the data of 4.2 million current and former federal workers, including their Social Security numbers.

She personally resigned to President Barack Obama because she felt the agency needed a new leader to “move beyond the current challenges," the official said.

Archuleta has been at the helm of the OPM since November 2013.

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