J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, a union that represents more than 670,000 workers in the executive branch, took a swing at the agency in ink: «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 one million former
federal employees,» he wrote in the letter dated Thursday, which Fortune obtained.
The
Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA), H.R. 5037, builds on NIH's 2 - year - old requirement that grantees submit their peer - reviewed manuscripts to the free PubMed
Central database for posting within 12 months after publication in a journal.