WASHINGTON — The top watchdogs in the House demanded to know Tuesday why a personal laptop taken from a federal building in Washington state was used to conduct child-support audits, especially because it and other stolen hard drives may have contained millions of names and Social Security numbers.
The letter by the House government oversight panel’s Republican chairman and senior Democrat to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell comes about a week after GOP investigators began looking into the breach in Olympia, which authorities say affected as many as five million people.
