Pentagon Data Breach
Pentagon Database Breach Exposes Nearly Three Million Personal Records
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A breach of the Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center exposed personal information belonging to 2.76 million living people and about 294,000 deceased individuals. The records included Social Security numbers and details about military and civilian jobs, raising concerns that the information could pose security risks or be used for identity theft and targeted scams. Officials say unauthorized access lasted from October 2025 until the vulnerability was discovered and fixed in July 2026; they have found no evidence of misuse and are offering affected people identity-protection and credit-monitoring services.
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The DMDC database holds more than 60 million personnel records, covering active-duty and reserve service members, civilian employees, contractors, retirees, veterans and military family members.
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The defense official described the intrusion as involving “a small number of unauthorized users.”
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Military Times first reported the Pentagon breach the week before ABC News published its account.
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The Pentagon incident surfaced alongside a separate breach involving the FBI’s jobs portal. An unidentified threat actor threatened to publish personal information about FBI employees, and the FBI was treating the incident as though every employee’s personal information had been compromised.
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