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Navy Investigating Sailor Data Exposure
David Utter
Staff Writer
2006-06-25
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About 28,000 sailors and family members have had their personally identifiable information put on display on a civilian website.
The information has since been removed, according to a Naval NewsStand report. A website containing five spreadsheets displayed the names, birthdates, and Social Security numbers for those 28,000 sailors and related persons.
The Navy Personnel Center will contact those whose information has been publicly exposed. Sailors may also call the Center directly to see if their personal data was exposed.
On June 22nd, the Chief of Naval Personnel became aware of the breach. Several sections of the Navy, including the Criminal Investigative Service, and Network Warfare Command, are involved with tracking down details about the exposure to minimize the potential for future issues like these.
This is the latest in an astonishing string of federal government related data exposures. A burglary at the home of a Veterans Affairs analyst may have exposed data on 26.5 million US armed forces personnel.
The Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Trade Commission have both seen laptops go missing in the past few weeks.
At the US Department of Agriculture, an external attacker gained access to a pair of servers there. Forensic analysis of the breach could not confirm or disprove if personal information had been compromised in those systems.
In March, details of the Congressional review of computer security practices graded a number of agencies wth big red Fs. Among those flunking agencies: Agriculture and Veterans Affairs.
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Tag: US Navy
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David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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