A major federal union says that the cyber theft of federal employee information is much worse than the Obama Administration has led the American public to believe, asserting that hackers have stolen personal information, data, and Social Security numbers for every federal employee.

Originally the Obama Administration had released that up to 4 million current and former employees could be affected by this massive data breach, but were vague on the information that was stolen.

However, J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, stated in a letter Thursday to Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta that based on information provided,

“We believe that the Central Personnel Data File was the targeted database, and that the hackers are now in possession of all personnel data for every federal employee, every federal retiree, and up to 1 million former federal employees.”

The OPM data files contain the records of non-military, non-intelligence executive branch employees, but not members of Congress and their staffs. However, most federal employees are a part of the executive branch, so the scope of this date breach is terrifying.

The Obama Administration hasn’t formerly issued a statement accusing the Chinese government of the hack and cyber theft, but Harry Reid, and other officials briefed on the topic, have said it was carried out by “the Chinese.” The OPM’s central personnel data file contains up to 780 separate pieces of information about each employee.

It has long been thought that the Chinese are collecting and establishing a database full of information about individual Americans, and it is common knowledge that the Chinese have successfully hacked nearly every major U.S. company in an attempt at large-scale theft of corporate secrets.