🪖 Pentagon Leaks 3M Records & 🤖 Fake ChatGPT Bot Plants Malware
Today's headlines hit two places most of us trust without a second thought: the government agencies holding our most sensitive records, and the AI chatbots we ask for help every day. Here's what happened and why it matters. 🪖 The Pentagon's Personnel Agency Left 3 Million People's Data Exposed The Defense Manpower Data Center, the Pentagon office that keeps records on military personnel, stored personal data unencrypted on a file-sharing server with a known security hole. Unauthorized users were able to access those files for roughly nine months, from October 2025 until July 16, 2026. The exposed records included Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, contact details, and military job specialties for about 2.76 million living people and 294,000 who have died. If you or a family member has served, watch your credit and be alert for phishing messages that use your service details to seem legitimate. For businesses, it's a clear reminder that encrypting sen...