{
  "id": 10555091,
  "title": "Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/pentagon-breach-exposed-sensitive-data-on-nearly-3-million-people",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-28T22:51:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News (US)",
    "slug": "abc-news-us",
    "url": "https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-breach-exposed-sensitive-data-3-million-people/story?id=136832909"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A breach in the Pentagon's personnel database exposed sensitive data belonging to nearly 3 million individuals, including Social Security numbers and job details. The unauthorized access, which occurred between October 2025 and July 2026, affected 2.76 million living people and 294,000 deceased, as confirmed by a U.S. defense official. The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) discovered the vulnerability and promptly remediated it. The DMDC manages over 60 million personnel records, encompassing active-duty, reserve troops, civilian employees, contractors, retirees, veterans, and military family members. While there is no evidence that the exposed data has been misused, the defense officials have offered identity protection and credit monitoring resources. This breach follows a similar incident where the FBI's jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov, was compromised, with threat actors threatening to publish sensitive information about FBI employees. The FBI has been proactively notifying impacted employees, providing guidance on maintaining situational awareness, and arranging internal briefings.",
  "summary": "The breach included Social Security numbers and details about jobs people held.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}