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Re:Army National Guard announces data breach by trengrj on Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:19PM (#9871937)
When I read that "an employee transferred data to a non DoD-accreditated data centre", I imagine the employee transferring a dataset to Amazon Web Services or something similar (usually because the tooling in their current environment is horrible).

Edit: I just had a look and found AWS is actually DoD-certified http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/dod/. I wonder what the data centre in question could be.

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Re:Army National Guard announces data breach by jon-wood on Sunday July 12, 2015 @06:57AM (#9873107)
Only some parts of AWS are DoD certified, and even then only some services in the GovCloud region (which isn't widely available) are fully certified. It's entirely possible some contractor made use of a service which isn't certified still.
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