Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
摘要
美国国防部近日通知超过200万名现役及退役军人，其包含敏感个人信息的档案在一次持续数月的网络入侵中被窃取。泄露数据包括社会安全号码、姓名、住址、性别、种族及职业专长等，其中职业信息可能被外国情报机构用于识别高价值军事人员。黑客自去年10月起入侵国防人力数据中心系统，影响约280万在世人员记录。这是近几个月来第二起暴露美国政府敏感人事记录的重大网络事件，上月勒
The Pentagon is informing more than 2 million current and former military members that their personnel records storing sensitive personal information were stolen over a monthslong compromise of one of its networks. The breach is the second one in recent months to expose sensitive government information.
The records, according to one notification letter posted to Reddit, included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, sex, race, and occupational specialty. This last category could be particularly valuable to foreign adversaries because it could help their intelligence agencies in identifying high-value military personnel. Starting last October, hackers gained access to a system operated by the Defense Manpower Data Center, which collates Department of Defense personnel records. The Pentagon says that the breach compromised the records of 2.8 million living individuals.
A potential boon
The incident is the second time a major network breach in recent months has exposed sensitive US government personnel records that criminal groups or foreign adversaries could use. Last month, the ransomware group ShinyHunters claimed it hacked into FBI systems and stole records of thousands of the agency’s current or former employees. Reuters reported the job titles in the records included ones related to investigating China or Russia.
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