Reports indicate the pentagon failed to secure the personal information of at least 30,000 U.S. military and civilian personnel. A data breach was discovered on October 4th, 2018 however suspected to have actually occurred months ago. A statement released by the Pentagon verified “the department is continuing to assess the risk of harm and will ensure notifications are made to affected personnel”.
The source of the breach was through a third party vendor, due to security reasons, the department is not identifying the vendor. The vendor is still under contract, but the department states they have “taken steps to have the vendor cease performance under its contracts.” Also adding “affected individuals will be informed in the coming days and fraud protection services will be provided to them”
Similarly, in recent months tens of thousands of customers of local governments in various states across the US had their information compromised. In all the breaches one third party vendor is allegedly responsible.
Click2Gov is used by hundreds of local governments for “self-service bill-pay options for utilities, community development, and finance.” Superion-hosted servers for Click2Gov payment processing which was the source of all the recent compromises.
The Click2gov data breaches have impacted customers in
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- Goodyear, AZ
- Oceanside, CA
- Oxnard, CA
- Thousand Oaks, CA
- Lake Worth, FL
- Ormond Beach, FL
- Okaloosa County, FL
- Wellington, FL
- Bossier City, LA
- Beaumont, TX
- Fond du Lac, WI
- And many more…
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Local governments have begun notifying affected customers.
If you received notification that your information was compromised in a breach or privacy violation and you suffered financial harm, the Investigators at Legal Action News would like to hear from you. Contact us
