Gannett Government Media user information stolen
The Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack on resulting in unauthorized access to files containing user information.
The information in those files included the first and last name, userID, password, email address, the internal number assigned to the user account, and if you provided the information, your ZIP code, duty status, paygrade, and branch of service.
No financial (e.g. credit or debit card) information was compromised as financial information is stored on a completely different system.
Gannett Government Media was first established in 1940 as the Army Times Publishing Company, an independent publishing company reporting on military news and information. Since then, the company has launched or acquired many periodicals, including:
- Air Force Times
- Armed Forces Journal
- Army Times
- C4ISR Journal
- Defense News
- Federal Times
- Marine Corps Times
- Military Times
- Military Times Edge
- Navy Times
- This Week in Defense News
- Training & Simulation Journal.