A breach of personal information stemming from an improperly handled data transfer, not hackers, could affect as many as 850,000 former and current members of the Army National Guard.
The Army National Guard incident, which is unrelated to the recent breach of federal civilian employees' personal information, may have leaked soldiers' names, full Social Security numbers, dates of birth and home addresses.
"All current and former Army National Guard members since 2004 could be affected by this breach because files containing personal information were inadvertently transferred to a non-DoD-accredited data center by a contract employee," Major Earl Brown, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau, said.
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Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
