You can reset a password. You can't reset your date of birth.
That's the part of the Pentagon data breach that deserves more attention than the headline number.
What happened: the Defense Manpower Data Center, a Pentagon records unit, says unauthorized users exploited a flaw in a file-sharing system between October 2025 and July 2026. About 2.8 million living people are affected, plus 294,000 deceased, a Pentagon official said.
Exposed: names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, contact details and military service records. The Pentagon official described the data as unencrypted. The Pentagon says it has no indication of misuse and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring.
Look at the asymmetry. The support lasts 12 months. The exposure doesn't. A date of birth never changes, and a Social Security number is very hard to replace. Identity data you can't rotate is the most expensive kind to lose.
What people miss: the DMDC keeps more than 60 million personnel records and runs identity verification for Pentagon ID cards. When identity data sits in a few large systems, one flaw can reach millions.
The trade-off: central databases make verification simple, and every flaw expensive. Holding less data means less to lose, but also another way to verify identity.
Should institutions hold less of our identity data, even if verification gets harder?
#Liberdus #SolanaETFsEnd14WeekInflowStreak $ONDO
That's the part of the Pentagon data breach that deserves more attention than the headline number.
What happened: the Defense Manpower Data Center, a Pentagon records unit, says unauthorized users exploited a flaw in a file-sharing system between October 2025 and July 2026. About 2.8 million living people are affected, plus 294,000 deceased, a Pentagon official said.
Exposed: names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, contact details and military service records. The Pentagon official described the data as unencrypted. The Pentagon says it has no indication of misuse and is offering 12 months of credit monitoring.
Look at the asymmetry. The support lasts 12 months. The exposure doesn't. A date of birth never changes, and a Social Security number is very hard to replace. Identity data you can't rotate is the most expensive kind to lose.
What people miss: the DMDC keeps more than 60 million personnel records and runs identity verification for Pentagon ID cards. When identity data sits in a few large systems, one flaw can reach millions.
The trade-off: central databases make verification simple, and every flaw expensive. Holding less data means less to lose, but also another way to verify identity.
Should institutions hold less of our identity data, even if verification gets harder?
#Liberdus #SolanaETFsEnd14WeekInflowStreak $ONDO