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[update] VA Missing Hard Drive in Birmingham, Ala.
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:01:49 -0500
http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=2348926&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Sunday issued an update on the information potentially contained on a missing government-owned, portable hard drive used by a VA employee at a Department facility in Birmingham, Ala. [...] VA and VA's Office of Inspector General have learned that data files the employee was working with may have included sensitive VA-related information on approximately 535,000 individuals. The investigation has also determined that information on approximately 1.3 million non-VA physicians both living and deceased could have been stored on the missing hard drive. It is believed though, that most of the physician information is readily available to the public. Some of the files, however, may contain sensitive information. VA continues to examine data on the employee's work computer. The employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. VA has no information the data has been misused. Birmingham Update 2/2/2/2 [...] Next week, VA will begin making notifications to individuals whose sensitive information may have been on the hard drive. VA is also making arrangements to provide one year of free credit monitoring to those whose information proves compromised. [...] On January 22, the employee, who works at the Birmingham (Ala.) VA Medical Center, reported the external hard drive was missing. On January 23, VA's IG was notified. The OIG opened a criminal investigation, sent special agents to the medical center, and notified the FBI. VA's Office of Information & Technology in Washington, D.C. also dispatched an incident response team to investigate. [...] -- Main site: http://www.pogowasright.org Main RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/pogowasright.rss Breaches RSS feed: http://www.pogowasright.org/backend/breaches.rss _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 570 incidents over 7 years.
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