Pentagon Reveals Cyber Breach of Travel Records

The Pentagon on Friday said there has been a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. From a report: According to a U.S. official familiar with the matter, the breach could have affected as many as 30,000 workers, but that number may grow as the investigation continues. The breach could have happened some months ago but was only recently discovered. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the breach is under investigation, said that no classified information was compromised. According to a Pentagon statement, a department cyber team informed leaders about the breach on Oct. 4. Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino, a Pentagon spokesman, said the department is still gathering information on the size and scope of the hack and who did it. "It's important to understand that this was a breach of a single commercial vendor that provided service to a very small percentage of the total population" of Defense Department personnel, said Buccino.

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[HarrySquatter]

Because the device manufacturers are any better at security? Good joke... Good joke...

It's not like we've heard about numerous data breaches of private companies or anything because of lax security practices. Nah, they're all impregnable and spend the most amount of money possible on security that they can.

let the Right one in

[PopeRatzo]

It's almost as if bad guys have become emboldened to attack the US. I wonder why that could be?

The paragon of security

[mr_shifty]

.... but this is the same government that says we should have backdoors on all civilian encryption schemes and they'd keep those perfectly safe. Right. I'm sure nothing bad could happen from that.

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[gtall]

I am sorry to inform you that there are many branches of the U.S. Government.

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[whh3]

I think that you spelled it wrong. It's breaches, not branches.

God Damn It

[Greyfox]

Well I guess it's nice of them to collect all that data in one place for the hackers. No need to segregate data or anything because, you know, their computers are completely 100% unhackable :/

You watch, there will be absolutely no consequences to whomever was in charge of that shit.

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