| Subject: Air Force Personnel SSI Numbers Hacked |
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Betty
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Date Posted: 15:46:42 08/23/05 Tue
Don't make your passwords too easy folks. A password like whoMe66 will be easily hacked in under 5 minutes. But you don't need one as hard as sovjt786mnf997 either (too hard to remember too). 3Who62me will be hard 'nuff to crack.
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A database containing Social Security numbers and other information about 33,000 people was accessed, an Air Force spokesman said.
By The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO (AP)--A suspected hacker tapped into a military database containing Social Security numbers and other personal information for 33,000 Air Force officers and some enlisted personnel, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday.
That figure represents about half of the officers in the Air Force, but no identity theft had been reported as of early Tuesday, said Tech. Sgt. James Brabenec, a spokesman at the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base.
The case is under investigation.
“Protecting airmen's personnel information is something we take very seriously,” Maj. Gen. Tony Przybyslawski, commander of the personnel center, said in a statement. “We are doing everything we can to catch and prosecute those responsible.”
The Social Security numbers, birthdates, and other information was accessed sometime in May or June, apparently by someone with the password to the Air Force computer system, Brabenec said.
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