Data Breach Roughly 21,426 Marine Corps Forces Reserve

Major data breach at Marine Forces Reserve impacts thousands
Marine Corps Times
Shawn Snow
February 28, 2018

The personal information of thousands of Marines, sailors and civilians, including bank account numbers, was compromised in a major data spillage emanating from U.S. Marine Corps Forces Reserve.

A U.S. Marine assigned to the cyber security technician course, Marine Corps Communications-Electronics School, work on an assignment at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, California, March 15, 2017. (Lance Cpl. Jose Villalobosrocha/Marine Corps)

Roughly 21,426 people were impacted when an unencrypted email with an attachment containing personal confidential information was sent to the wrong email distribution list Monday morning.

The compromised attachment included highly sensitive data such as truncated social security numbers, bank electronic funds transfer and bank routing numbers, truncated credit card information, mailing address, residential address and emergency contact information, Maj. Andrew Aranda, spokesman for Marine Forces Reserve said in a command release.
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VA asked to help vets whose info may have been hacked by Chinese

VA asked to help vets whose info may have been hacked by Chinese
By The Associated Press
Published: Saturday, June 15, 2013

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked the Veterans Affairs Department on Friday to offer credit monitoring to veterans and dependents whose personal information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, might have been disclosed when its computer systems were hacked.

The lawmakers are responding to testimony at a hearing where witnesses said foreign-sponsored organizations had successfully compromised VA networks. One former VA official said at least eight groups, mostly connected to the Chinese military, had hacked into the system or had tried. A VA official downplayed the threat but acknowledged that he knew of one foreign-sponsored breach.

Lawmakers emphasized that they really don't know what information may have been taken from VA's computer systems. Hackers encrypted the information before they removed it from the system. Rep. Jeff Miller, the Republican chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, said businesses routinely provide credit monitoring when data may be compromised. He said it should be no different for the federal government.
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Army vows to help heroes after data breach

Army helps data breach victims
Investigation continues to determine how sensitive information got online
Army Times
By Joe Gould
Posted : Saturday Oct 13, 2012

Army will offer a year of credit-monitoring services to protect the 31 Social Security numbers of the Medal of Honor and Distinguished Service Cross recipients that were posted online last month.

The Army announced it began to inform the affected people or their next of kin on Oct. 11, after inquiries from Army Times, which first reported the breach on Sept. 28, and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R.-Calif., who wrote a letter dated Oct. 11 to urge Army Secretary John McHugh to take swifter action.

“It is critical that this issue is resolved immediately and the soldiers and families comprising the 31 individuals whose information was released are immediately informed, at the very least, of the data breach and provided every reassurance that the Army is taking the necessary action,” Hunter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine Corps officer, said in the letter.

The exposed database — since removed — contained 518 records of the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star recipients for actions since the global war on terror began in 2001. In the database, Social Security numbers appeared for 31 soldiers, the six MoH and 25 DSC recipients, but none of the Silver Star recipients. Doug Sterner, curator of the Military Times “Hall of Valor,” uncovered the exposed database.
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Defense contractor had 518 decorated heroes data online

3,800 vets affected by latest VA data breaches

3,800 vets affected by latest VA data breaches

By Tom Spoth - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday May 19, 2010 17:42:42 EDT

More than 3,800 veterans had their personal information compromised last month in two data breaches that have led to renewed criticism of the Veterans Affairs Department’s data security.

On April 22, an unencrypted laptop belonging to VA contractor Heritage Health Solutions was stolen from a vehicle, compromising the records of more than 600 veterans, Rep. Harry Mitchell, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs subcommittee on oversight, said at a hearing Wednesday.

And on April 24, a log book vanished from a medical lab that contained the records of 3,265 veterans.

Both incidents were related to VA facilities in Texas.
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3800 vets affected by latest VA data breaches

50,000 names and social security numbers of noncommissioned officers compromised

Names, SSNs compromisedThousands of E-7, E-8 selectees affected

Top News StoryA breakdown in securityPromotion selection lists containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 50,000 active-component noncommissioned officers were compromised earlier this year and in 2005