Such an advanced country can't seem to protect its data! Had this happened in a BPO country they would have said out sourcing is no good, etc... Can't trust these Yanks!
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US Air Force data breached Correspondents in Washington AUGUST 24, 2005
MORE than 33,000 US Air Force officers could be at greater risk of idenbreasty theft after a "malicious user" accessed a database containing personal information.
The attacker used a legitimate pbuttword to access a database that contained birth dates, Social Security numbers and career information for about half of the Air Force's officers, as well as a handful of non commissioned officers, Master Sergeant. Randy Mitchell said. Personal financial records and clbuttified military information are not included in the career-management database, he said.
The incident has not led to any known instances of idenbreasty theft but the Air Force is urging those affected to monitor their credit records, he said.
"We're not sure what the person was doing inside the system, if they was just being curious and going through all these records or what, but nobody's information has been used in an illegal way that we know of so far," Sgt Mitchell said in an interview.
A rash of security breaches at businesses, universities and other insbreastutions have put at least 50 million US consumers at heightened risk for idenbreasty theft over the past year.
The US Congress is considering several bills that would tighten computer-security standards and improve consumer protections when such incidents take place.
Reuters
