Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data

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Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data, according to Ars Technica. It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity. 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.