Posted on 06/07/2006 3:54:26 AM PDT by xzins
This is now a national security issue; especially is current addresses for these troops is included...which it probably is.
It would give current order of battle for every single military member on active duty.
Be of good cheer. However bad the Government says this situation is, it's probably worse.
I've been using this thread as a bump list for related info:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1636391/posts
Key Data on Millions of Veterans Stolen!
I still think there's less here than meets the eye; until and unless this information starts showing up, the reasonable assumption is that an ambitious-if-foolish employee took work home that he shouldn't have, and his computer got stolen by a common thief. The data probably no longer exists.
FYI, that story is linked in the post I added at 6.
fyi
>>>>A lawsuit filed by five veterans groups on Tuesday demanded that the VA fully disclose which military personnel are affected by the data theft and seeks $1,000 in damages for each person.
That story is at the link in my post 6 also.
Very odd too. The VVA has all but lost their charter standing. They need to be declaired a political group. And most of the groups in this lawsuit aren't even National.
The VA needs to PROVE that this has not been used for criminal purposes. otherwise they are liable for any fraud on ANY of the millions of people effected after the theft.
why is FR more secure thatn a government database?
The identity of 26.5 million veterans stolen.
That's everybody, all vets, right? Last I heard there were 26 million vets total. Or is my count off?
I think your number has to be real close.
All MIL since since 1975 is the info that has been quoted in articles.
This information was sold.
"The VVA has all but lost their charter standing. They need to be declaired a political group."
I call them the Wee Wee Aay. The fact that "Veterans for Peace" is one of the "groups" in this so-called coalition of orgs that the wee wee aay has filed suit vs the VA says all one needs to know, IMO.
Notice that the VFW and Legion haven't "joined" their coalition.....
from the Wee Wee Aay website:
"VVA is joined by four other national organizations and individual veterans in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal district court today by attorney Douglas Rosinski of the law firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. They are the National Gulf War Resource Center, Radiated Veterans of America, Citizen Soldier, and Veterans for Peace."
http://www.vva.org/PressReleases/2006/pr06-010.htm
bump
Really is suspicious.
Data theft has become rampant. The laws are still too lenient for those that commit this kind of crime. The data is sold for marketing purposes. Say your a database administrator making $60,000 a year. You steal the data and sell the list to marketers who will pay ten cents a record. So in the case of all the existing military personele plus veterans of 2.2 million records, you sell it for $220,000k with a couple of phone calls. Data theft are almost always inside jobs like this. These greedy database administrators need to go to prison as a federal crime just like embezzlement charges for 10-20 years. Then this will stop. Until then, you'll see more and more of this, it is just too tempting for a database administrator to sell out and lets face it, most executive management knows little on how to secure and protect this inside theft from occuring.
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