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By Bob Brewin
June 27, 2006
The Navy said the personal information of more than 30,000
sailors
that a civilian Web site exposed pertains to sailors and
their
families located in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Lt. Justin Cole, a spokesman for the chief of naval
personnel, said
the Navy collected the personal information in relation to
hurricane
relief operations.
Cole said the Navy has no idea how someone published the
information
on the Web site. The site has removed that information. Cole
declined
to identify the site or its purpose, but he said it was not
a medical
or health information Web site.
The Navy said last week it first became aware of the
exposure of the
personal information June 22 in a report by the Joint Task
Force-Global Network Operations the Navy Cyber Defense
Operations
Command, part of the Naval Network Warfare Command
(Netwarcom).
The personal information was contained in five spreadsheet
files on
the Web site and included the name, birth dates and Social
Security
numbers of sailors and family members, the Navy said.
The service mailed letters to all 30,618 service members and
their
families affected by the incident, the Navy added. The
service said it
has no evidence that someone has illegally used the personal
information on the Web site.
Cole said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is
investigating
the incident. But he declined to provide further details.
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