Defense Department personnel data exposed in breach: Letter

Hackers broke into a computer system run by the Defense Department's human resources division. The breach lasted several months and may have exposed personal information belonging to up to four million Defense Department personnel, including active-duty service members. The exposure of this data has been reported publicly through a letter.

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