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Washington – The Secret Service and FBI are investigating how personal information purported to relate to first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and former first lady Hillary Clinton ended up on an Internet site, officials said Tuesday. It was not clear how much of the information was accurate and whether it was obtained through hacking or by scrutinizing public records.

Asked about the hacking in an interview Tuesday, President Barack Obama couldn’t confirm the details of the incident, but said “we should not be surprised that if you’ve got hackers who want to dig in and devote a lot of resources, that they can access peoples’ private information. It is a big problem.”

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