United States Navy Career Waypoints (C-WAY) Database

Name of Entity
United States Navy Career Waypoints (C-WAY) Database
Organization Type
Government & Military
Address

Washington, DC
United States

Description
"The personal data of more than 130,000 sailors in a re-enlistment
approval database was stolen from a contractor’s laptop, the Navy
disclosed Wednesday.
The Navy was notified in October by Hewlett Packard
 Enterprise Services
 that a computer supporting a
Navy contract was “compromised,” and that the names and social security
numbers of 134,386 current and former sailors were accessed by unknown
persons, the service said in a news release.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is in the early stages of
investigating the breach, but in a release said it hasn’t found any
malicious use of the data yet.
“The Navy takes this incident extremely seriously -- this is a
matter of trust for our sailors," said Navy personnel boss Vice Adm.
Robert Burke in a statement. "We are in the early stages of
investigating and are working quickly to identify and take care of those
affected by this breach."
A Navy official familiar with the investigation said the personal
data came from the Career Waypoints database, known as C-WAY, which
sailors use to submit re-enlistment and requests to change Navy
Occupational Specialties."More information: https://www.navytimes.com/articles/data-breach-exposes-more-than-100-000...
Date of Breach
01/01/2016
Source