232000 Military SSN exposed

[Henry Brown <hbrown () knology net>]

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=65799

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The military is playing catch-up on a year-old complaint that hundreds 
of thousands of officers’ Social Security numbers have been floating 
around on the Internet.

In an October 2008 letter to the Defense Department and the Federal 
Trade Commission, Public.Resource.org detailed its discovery of roughly 
232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers in government and 
commercial databases, available to anyone with an Internet connection.

...

But his complaint, addressed to military Inspector General Gordon 
Heddell, did not reach the Defense Privacy Office until August. The 
office is now in the process of ensuring the numbers have been redacted, 
both online and in print, director Samuel Jenkins said.

"We’re at the beginning stages of this," Jenkins said. "We’re taking 
this very seriously and aggressively pursuing action."

Military officials could not explain why it took nearly a year to 
address the complaint.

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