Marines' personal data exposed on Web

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/07/marine_data_exposed_070726/

Some Marines. personal information, including names and Social Security 
numbers, was inadvertently posted online recently, exposing more than 
10,000 leathernecks to potential identity theft, the Corps announced.

Under a research contract, Penn State University obtained from the Corps 
the personal information of Marines who had rifle range requalification 
records while attending Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., 
from January 2004 through December 2006.

The data belonging to 10,554 Marines was "improperly posted" by Penn 
State, according to a Corps-wide message.

[...]
_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org)
http://attrition.org/dataloss
Tracking more than 220 million compromised records in 734 incidents over 7 years.