Possible Tricare Data Compromise

By: fedweek

Defense Department contractor SAIC Inc. (Science Applications International Corporation) may have compromised personal Tricare beneficiary data for more than half a million service members as well as their families because it did not encrypt data transmitted online. SAIC said July 20 it had not found any evidence that the personal information had been accessed by unauthorized people. SAIC said the unencrypted information sent online concerned 580,000 military households on an unsecured server in Shalimar, Fla. (The server is no longer in use.) An official of the Military Officers Association of America said, “MOAA is deeply troubled to learn of yet another potential breach of personal information of the uniformed services community. It is vital to the nation’s security that the personal information of military families be protected at all costs.” SAIC has established a website for further information at http://www.saic.com/response/.