Navy Reports Data Breach After Hewlett Packard Laptop Compromised
November 23 2016 - 8:10PM
Dow Jones News
The U.S. Navy is warning more than 130,000 sailors of a data
breach, after a laptop belonging to an employee of Navy contractor
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. was compromised.
The Navy learned of the incident on Oct. 27 and determined on
Tuesday that names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current
and former sailors were accessed by "unknown individuals," the Navy
said Wednesday in a statement.
"We are in the early stages of investigating and are working
quickly to identify and take care of those affected by this
breach," the Navy said.
The Navy said it had no evidence of "misuse" of the compromised
information. The statement didn't specify how they information was
compromised.
Affected employees will be notified over the next weeks via
telephone, letter and email, and the Navy is "reviewing credit
monitoring services options," for those affected.
HP Enterprise didn't respond to an email seeking comment.
Write to Robert McMillan at Robert.Mcmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 23, 2016 20:55 ET (01:55 GMT)
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