U.S. Army Doctor Details Exposed in Data Breach

By Chris Riback

Posted January 3, 2017 at 11:08am

BBC News reports that “Sensitive details of health workers employed by the US military’s Special Operations Command (Socom) have been exposed in a data breach.”

“The 11GB of data included social security numbers, names, addresses and salaries of some Socom staff.”

“All the workers, including some with top secret clearances, were employed by subcontractor Potomac Healthcare.”

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