HP is the NMCI contractor.

Wonder who the victims are? It's too small for the whole navy and too big for the navy reserve. Maybe NMCI east or west? Or maybe all ashore CONUS regular navy, minus afloat/overseas?

3-4 years ago, the entire TRICARE system was suspected of being breached, because a contractor in San Antonio left a laptop in her car...and someone stole it.

Shortly thereafter, the entire DoD personnel system was suspected of being breached by a foreign-power....the notification letter from the Director the Personnel System said she too was in the same boat...irony. Divine justice?

Both of those breaches were in the millions of affected people.

Graciously, the government offered to give credit-checks for three years....

The best precaution against identity theft is to become such a lowlife scoundrel yourself that any impostor will immediately be seized and imprisoned.

I am sure neither HP nor the Contractor intended to cause a Security breech. No reasonable prosecutor would pursue this.

There are criminal penalties on the books for mishandling of PII. If mishandling occurred and it was deemed highly negligent with large-scale consequences, then prosecution could occur. Eventually that is going to happen at the rate we're going.

But there's nothing in the story to indicate mishandling, rather it sounds more like hacking.

One of the mil data breaches got myself and my wife a year and a half ago. The gov't just sets you up with like 2 yrs free of commercial identity monitoring.

Biggest thing that drove me nuts was their delayed notification that eventually came via snail mail. Looked like spam and could easily have been tossed.

In fact my wife tossed hers and therefore lost her special code necessary for signing up for monitoring. I contacted whatever gov't agency was handling all this to ask for them to resend the code and they said they had no process in place for that and to try again..maybe in a couple months?!?


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Only 134,000? This is nothing. The Office of Personnel Management hack back in 2014/2015 exposed the personal data of more than 20MILLION people.

If you ever had a security clearance or had your personal information listed on security clearance SF86 paperwork (personal reference), your data has been comprised.

I received my OPM letter. I didn't request credit monitoring because the company they selected was unknown, and I felt giving yet another government contractor or agency my information and access to credit information would lead to more privacy concerns and date theft issues.

Ha, yeah that's fair..



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