{"id":244780,"date":"2026-10-02T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-stole-pentagon-personnel-records-of-over-3-million-people"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:30:38","slug":"hackers-stole-pentagon-personnel-records-of-over-3-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/hackers-stole-pentagon-personnel-records-of-over-3-million-people","title":{"rendered":"Hackers stole Pentagon personnel records of over 3 million people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-stole-pentagon-personnel-records-of-over-3-million-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of military service members that hackers stole their data after breaching the Pentagon\u2019s human resources management system in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In data breach notification letters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AirForce\/comments\/1wmotdr\/question_about_data_breach_letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shared online<\/a> by affected individuals, the DMDC told affected military personnel that \u201ca small number of unauthorized users\u201d had access to their sensitive data, including personally identifiable information (PII), between October 2025 and July 2026 after exploiting a vulnerability in its file-sharing systems.<\/p>\n<p>The stolen data varies by person and includes Social Security numbers (SSNs), names, dates of birth, contact information, sex, race, and military personnel information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon\u2019s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of military service members that hackers stole their data after breaching the Pentagon\u2019s human resources management system in October 2025. In data breach notification letters shared online by affected individuals, the DMDC told affected military personnel that \u201ca small number of unauthorized users\u201d had access [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}