🚨🇺🇸 Intruders sat inside Pentagon personnel files for 9 months: nearly 3 million troops and civilians exposed, Social Security numbers included The break-in ran from October until July before the Pentagon's main personnel database caught it, exposing 2.76 million living people a
Why now
Thesis: Pentagon breach highlights federal cyber gaps
Catalyst to watch: Congressional hearings or remediation contracts
Main risk: Breach details remain unverified
Why it matters
Major Pentagon data breach exposes personnel records, raising cybersecurity spending pressure and reputational risk for defense IT contractors.
Details
🚨🇺🇸 Intruders sat inside Pentagon personnel files for 9 months: nearly 3 million troops and civilians exposed, Social Security numbers included The break-in ran from October until July before the Pentagon's main personnel database caught it, exposing 2.76 million living people and 294,000 dead ones, down to the jobs they held. The FBI's hiring site got hit too, and the hackers behind it, ShinyHunters, now say the whole thing was just a marketing campaign. The Pentagon sees no sign of misuse, which is not reassuring AT ALL. Three million people's data is floating around the dark web right now, and I highly doubt the hacking group is just going to sit and do nothing with it. Source: ABC News / Writer: Daniel
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