WashingtonPentagon says hackers compromised 2.8 million personnel records.
Stolen occupational specialties could help foreign spies find high-value troops.
Intruders entered a Defense Manpower Data Center system in October 2025 and took Social Security numbers, addresses and occupational specialties.
The Pentagon says the stolen data hasn’t been misused, without explaining how it knows.
The Defense Department has not said how attackers got in, or whether they demanded ransom.
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- Ars Technica leans critical
- emphasizes occupational specialty data as particularly valuable for identifying high-value military personnel to foreign intelligence
Sources: Ars Technica