Personal data for more than 130,000 sailors was breached, Navy says

[Recursion]

Source: Navy Times

The personal data of more than 130,000 sailors in a re-enlistment approval database was stolen from a contractor’s laptop, the Navy disclosed Wednesday.

The Navy was notified in October by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services that a computer supporting a Navy contract was “compromised,” and that the names and social security numbers of 134,386 current and former sailors were accessed by unknown persons, the service said in a news release.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is in the early stages of investigating the breach, but in a release said it hasn’t found any malicious use of the data yet.

“The Navy takes this incident extremely seriously — this is a matter of trust for our Sailors," said Navy personnel boss Vice Adm. Robert Burke in a statement. "We are in the early stages of investigating and are working quickly to identify and take care of those affected by this breach."

Read more: https://www.navytimes.com/articles/data-breach-exposes-more-than-100-000-sailors-information

[DURHAM D]

1. They need to use Bill's server. nt

[DK504]

2. Russians?

Will they follow it back to the KGB?

[MADem]

3. Ohfachrissake. What the hell is WRONG with people, leaving sensitive shit on laptops?

ASSHOLES!!!!

And of course, they screw over the least of the brethren--this isn't officer data, this is Sailor data:

A Navy official familiar with the investigation said the personal data came from the Career Waypoints database, known as C-WAY, which sailors use to submit re-enlistment and Navy Occupational Specialty requests.