Marine Corps Forces Reserve data breach
The Marine Corps Times reports that the Marine Corps Forces Reserve sent the personally identifying information of more than 21,000 personnel to people who weren’t authorized to have that information outside of the Marine Corps.
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.
That email was a roster sent out by the Defense Travel System, or DTS, Marine Corps Times has learned. DTS is a Defense Department system that assists military and civilian defense personnel with travel itineraries and settling expenses from official authorized trips.
“It was very quickly noticed and email recall procedures were implemented to reduce the number of accounts that received it,” Aranda said.
The upside is that we’re being told about the breach only days after it happened, as opposed to other breaches that we found out about months after it happened.
Category: Marine Corps
Quick…find me a 2LT, a new SGT, and 3 PFC’s I can throw under the bus for this…
I get your point, but it is enbtirely possible that some scumbag civilian DOD employee did this. They don’t answer to anyone.
And that is why we need the 2LT, a new SGT, and 3 PFC’s to throw under the bus.
Who is the genius that did this? Can I have his/her credit card numbers?
I want to go shopping!!!!
The upside is that we’re being told about the breach only days after it happened, as opposed to other breaches that we found out about months after it happened.
Or years.
Assholes.
You’d think that the military would have some kind of process to not send out the PII of current service members.
DTS has always been evil; now add incompetence. Just great.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…
“You’re In Good Hands With…” Wait, no that doesn’t work here.
This is the stuff I think about every time some vendor assures me that they keep my data secure.
I am resigned to minimizing my footprint, and monitoring my credit reports. Even so I’ve had my SSN and credit cards used in parts of the country I have not been in.
And today Equifax admitted they compromised the data of another 2.4 million consumers. Next week they will release the names of the several people whose data was NOT breached.