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Army and Air Force Exchange confirms SIGA Telecom data breach of US military customers’ information in Germany

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Dissent

Stars and Stripes reports:

 Names, addresses, emails and technical information belonging to 98,000 U.S. military personnel stationed in Europe have been stolen from an on-base cellphone concessionaire, according to the Army and Air Force Exchange.

“The Exchange learned on February 11 of a data breach of customer information held by concessionaire SIGA Telecom,” AAFES spokesman Chris Ward said in an email Friday.

[…]

AAFES has ordered SIGA to notify its customers, set up telephone information line, develop a remediation plan and reevaluate its security within 90 days, he said.

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