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The US Navy is investigating a data breach after personal information of more than 130,000 sailors was accessed.
The breach came after the laptop of an employee at Hewlett Packard Enterprise working on a naval contract was "compromised", the Navy said.
It added that "unknown individuals" accessed the sensitive information on current and former sailors.
The data included names and social security numbers, but the Navy does not currently believe it was misused.
[...] Sailors are being contacted in the coming weeks and the Navy said it was looking into credit monitoring services for those affected.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which separated from US computer firm HP last year, informed the Navy on 27 October about the laptop.
After a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) investigation, it was found that the data of 134,386 sailors had been accessed.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:12PM
Security breaches like this happen all the time not only in the military, but in the military-industrial complex.
This is not news, unless it were conveniently chosen to reinforce the fear of evil foreign hackers in the backs of Americans' minds. And did all those sailors have security clearances, or was it just a bunch of Bubba-Gump boatswains' mates? There is always the potential for ID theft for financial gain, but when you consider the size and scale of the U.S. military, then 130K is not really a large number.
And, uh, oh yeah, by the way, the Russians did it. Russian hackers are also the reason why the San Diego Chargers are winning the game right now, because they wouldn't win if it weren't for Russian hackers.