Massive Pentagon Hack Exposes Sensitive Data of 3 Million US Service Members

According to the International Desk of Webangah News Agency, the American network ABC News reported a security breach in a massive database belonging to the U.S. Department of Defense (Pentagon), which has led to the exposure of sensitive information concerning approximately 3 million military personnel and employees of this ministry. The network cited a U.S. defense official who stated that the intrusion into the Pentagon employee database affected 2,760,000 living individuals and 294,000 deceased individuals. This security official added that one of the systems at the Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) was subjected to unauthorized access between October 2025 and July 2026, through which the identities of these individuals were identified. The defense official specified that the leaked information includes Social Security Numbers (SSN) and details related to the military and civilian employees’ occupations, which could raise serious national security concerns. He mentioned that a limited number of unauthorized users managed to access this data and claimed that the center immediately rectified the security vulnerability upon discovering the breach. A few days prior, a hacker group named ‘Shiny Hunters’ announced their intrusion into the recruitment portal of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The New York Times reported that this group claimed to have obtained the names of former agents and job applicants, along with their home addresses, phone numbers, spouses’ names, some medical information, and other data. The newspaper reported that the FBI confirmed the data intrusion and launched an investigation, but it remains unclear what the exact point of entry was and whether the breach occurred in the Bureau’s own systems or through a foreign contractor. The New York Times also revealed that U.S. officials had previously detected the presence of Chinese hackers in a database related to internal surveillance orders, an incident that followed previous breaches into U.S. telecommunication networks.