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posted by n1 on Sunday November 27 2016, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the hello,-sailor dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:27PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday November 27 2016, @08:27PM (#433750) Homepage

    Well, they don't. Islamic refugees are the invasion army weaponized and deployed on many countries, committing the worst murders known to mankind -- and, since the host governments are not only enabling but protecting them, they have nothing to fear.

    The U.S. Navy are just a bunch of Good Goys who wanted to get paid to escape Peoria and get to travel while playing with cool toys.

    Consider this: [navytimes.com]

    " On May 20, the Navy's hunt for its next recruiting slogan will start in earnest.

    That's when the new advertising contract, initially worth $84.4 million, takes effect under a new ad firm brought in to change direction after the service's unpopular "A global force for good" campaign.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @01:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @01:28AM (#433859)

    fuck you racist scum!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 28 2016, @02:21PM (#434040)

    Can you please drink yourself to death already to stop wasting valuable air?