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Pentagon

DISCLOSED 2026-09-28 · RANSOMWARE · 4,000,000 RECORDS EXPOSED

A data breach at the Pentagon may have exposed personal records of up to 4 million US service members. The incident remained undetected for months, and the exposed records were unencrypted. Investigators still do not know the full extent of the breach.

The record

What we know

Disclosed
2026-09-28
Attack vector
Ransomware
Sector
Government
Country
US
Records exposed
4,000,000
Data classes exposed
personal records
Sources

Cited reporting

↗ mezha.net
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