Posted on 05/22/2006 10:06:13 AM PDT by areafiftyone
May 22, 2006 — Personal data on about 26.5 million U.S. military veterans was stolen from the residence of a Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst who improperly took the material home, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday.
The data included names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth for the veterans, Nicholson said, but "there is no indication at this time" that the data had been used for identify theft.
Nicholson said the theft of the data took place this month, but declined to identify the employee or the location of the burglary.
I think you're right. He, she or it sold the info.
Tonk, did youn see this?
Is (s)he still working there?
Why?
WHAT SHOULDN'T have happened is the laptop be stolen without a CMOS password being set to allow the machine to boot, and an encrypted filesystem for the sensitive data.
And, he should have had a "mother, may I?" letter on file. CYA.
/johnny
Nicholson said the theft of the data took place this month, but declined to identify the employee or the location of the burglary.
Oh the irony...
Yes I did.
It's already done, no sense advertising it.
You're significantly younger than I am. My dad served in an Army medic unit with Dr. Charlie Mayo (yeah, THAT Mayo, as in Mayo Clinic) during WW II in the Philippines and New Guinea.
mark
Just friggin' beautiful. So are we supposed to contact anybody or what?
I'm still in the Army. Does this affect me? Or is it only people who have gotten out of the military?
As a rule, it seems that government employees neither hold others accountable nor are held accountable. My expectations are low.
I'm still in the Army. Does this affect me? Or is it only people who have gotten out of the military?
Say what was the deal with the '73 fire at St. Louis.. ?
It's basically anybody who has been in at some time after 1975, or dealt with the VA since 1975. There are some people who don't qualify. They got out sometime before Vietnam ended, and never dealt with the military or VA ever again. This is the minority though. Most folks, like me, have their info on this disk.
I doubt they even know they have it, unless that's what they were there for. I were investigating the case I would be finding out who may have known what he was taking home from work.
See this and post #60 as well.
Nice, huh? You can only hope they're sophisticated enough to not bother with negative balance accounts, heh. Grrrrrrrrrrrr
"My family and my identification data was stolen from TriCare computers a few years back..."
I was thinking the same thing...if memory serves, a hacker got into the files in Arizona and over half of the medical records were comprimised. We never heard another word after the first reports. I think that was in 1999 or 2000.
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