Posted on 07/11/2015 7:49:52 PM PDT by markomalley
The U.S. Army National Guard experienced their own personnel data breach, they announced Friday. The data breach includes current and former soldiers' names, full Social Security numbers, dates of birth and home addresses.
The announcement comes in the shadow of the massive Office of Personnel Management data breach suffered by 20 million government employees announced Thursday.
"All current and former Army National Guard members since 2004 could be affected by this breach because files containing personal information was inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee," said Maj. Earl Brown, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau.
"The National Guard Bureau takes the control of personal information very seriously," said Brown, saying that they chose to reveal the breach "out of an abundance of caution."
With no apparent irony intended, the National Guard has set up a toll-free call center and web page for members to learn how to check credit reports and guard against identity theft.
Brown said they do not believe the guardsmen's information will be used unlawfully. "This was not a hacking incident," he said.
Ping
one word:
OBAMA!
one response; ARREST THE SOB NOW
Nah, we have no enemies.
Has our government already surrendered?
Did I miss the news report?
Who owns us now?
Anybody?
THESE ARE NOT DATA BREACHES anymore that Kim Jung Un-Hinged was behind the “cyber attacks” on the New York Stock Exchange..the Wall Street Journal...and United Airlines...earlier this week!!!
this is internal espionage!!
Heads up.
I agree.
“a non-DoD-accredited data center” owned by the clintoon foundation
“China.” Hahahahahaha!
Obies pushing his luck a bit further every week
All I can say is thank God I am not in any bodies data base.
Haven’t used a doctor since 1980, use cash only, and service records are pre 1973.
Probably the only people who have me are the IRS.
what ever happened to dedicated network that we had when I was in the military? What brainiac decided to kill the network and start using this over the internet?
Guess now we know why St. Louis was being targeted recently by Chinese hackers:
Translation: "We make incompetent buffoons look like rocket scientists. And we get paid LOTS of tax dollars doing it..."
Active Duty/Guard ping.
Unfortunately, the IRS are criminals...
Also, I would like to say that I believe this is now not hacking, nor incompetence.
It is deliberate.
And it is putting millions of people at risk.
Someone is allowing access to all kinds of personal information and it is being done on purpose.
The information will come in handy should a foreign power or powers try to take us on someday.
Good to know where the former Fed workers are and who the military is,including citizen soldiers.
There will be more breaches to come.
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