The U.S. Navy has revealed that it has been notified by one of its vendors that a laptop of the contractor was the source of a data breach that compromised the names and Social Security numbers of 134,386 current and former U.S. Navy personnel.
The Navy is continuing to investigate the incident, but will be notifying the Navy personnel of the incident by telephone, email, and mail and will offer credit monitoring services for them.
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