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Data on 26.5 million veterans stolen from home
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:32:38 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/vets.data.reut/index.html Monday, May 22, 2006; Posted: 1:18 p.m. EDT (17:18 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- 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. "The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. We have a full-scale investigation going on in this," Nicholson told reporters by telephone. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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