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Proof: Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people

The record — the exact bytes that were hashed

{"first_seen":"2026-09-28T23:01:51Z","headline":"Pentagon breach exposed sensitive data on nearly 3 million people","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/Politics/pentagon-breach-exposed-sensitive-data-3-million-people/story?id=136832909","v":1}

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SHA-256

1ae3ef60a91640f4b2f56eee62c9c8db2c432d7e5d2c2e923afc9ca521e4ccb7

OpenTimestamps

Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969063, mined 2026-09-28 23:11 UTC.

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Wayback Machine

• The record pageCaptured 2026-09-28 23:03 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-09-28 23:04 UTC — view the capture.

Check it yourself — none of this needs this site

1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-1ae3ef60a916.json prints 1ae3ef60a91640f4b2f56eee62c9c8db2c432d7e5d2c2e923afc9ca521e4ccb7. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-1ae3ef60a916.json and headline-1ae3ef60a916.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-1ae3ef60a916.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 1 min after it was first seen.