| Title | US Navy Sailors' Data Breached | |
| Date | Sunday November 27 2016, @04:41PM | |
| Author | n1 | |
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| 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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