In another serious breach involving the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of US military personnel, the United States Army Reserves has reported the theft of three laptop computers, one of which contained a CD in the CD-ROM drive. Said CD contained the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of more than 207,000 reservists.

GovInfo Security reports that the data was unencrypted, and the theft actually involved a government contractor.

Most of the details of the case are quite standard: a third party with access to data, security controls lacking or completely non-existent, crime of opportunity, and now 207,000 more potential ID theft cases. And, as is common, policies and procedures are under review in response to the breach. Hopefully, good security technology will be one prong in the resulting PnP’s.

For now, however, 207,000 more victims are added to the stack. Thanks to kirniki for the tip.