232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers are available to anyone with an Internet connection

Stars and Stripes reports that 232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers are available to anyone with an Internet connection

In an October 2008 letter to the Defense Department and the Federal Trade Commission, Public.Resource.org detailed its discovery of roughly 232,000 military officers’ Social Security numbers in government and commercial databases, available to anyone with an Internet connection.