A year after the General Services Administration contracted with a Massachusetts credit monitoring firm to protect military families against data breaches, another government contractor is reporting that it lost personal information about service personnel.
SAIC, an $8 billion defense contractor headquartered in San Diego, announced last week that as many as a half million health records related to military personnel and their families may be in the open. The company later revised that number upwards by 60% and said up to 870,000 people could be affected.
SAIC was processing health information for the Department of Homeland Security, the Army, Navy and Air Force when it reported its second breach in three years. The records were allegedly placed on the Internet but not secured and were also reportedly transmitted on the Internet without encryption.
The company's management is doing its best to distance its processes from the breach, reporting that "a number" of employees have been placed on "administrative leave". Compounding the issue is that the Air Force allegedly notified SAIC of the issue rather than the company's own quality assurance measures detecting a problem.
SAIC has hired Kroll, Inc, a "data recovery" and "risk management" firm with offices throughout the country, to help military personnel and their families mitigate any identity theft issues.
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