Largest U.S. Military Records Theft

The Pentagon has recently reported on a recent theft of a U.S. military personnel laptop and external disk drive that was stolen from the home of an unidentified analyst on May 3rd.

The defense officials now say that the database on the laptop had the names, birth dates, and even the Social Security numbers for as many as 1.1 million active-duty military men and women.

Currently, there is a $50,000 reward for the return of the Hewlett-Packard laptop and disk drive. This whole thing is absolutely rediculous. I hope there was alteast some encryption and password protection on the sensitive files or the U.S. Government might find themselves with a database of confidential information eventually finding its way online.

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