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[update] Birmingham VA laptop
From: Dissent <Dissent () pogowasright org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:58:41 -0500
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/16683496.htm The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks. [...] [U.S. Rep. Artur Davis] said the department told him that the missing storage unit included the Social Security numbers and names of about 10,000 people, plus another 525,000 Social Security numbers. The information on doctors includes names and Medicare billing codes, he said. [...] Also: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/021207p1.htm [...] The data for the 1.3 million physicians who have billed Medicaid and Medicare, both living and deceased, could result in widespread fraud, such as the creation of fake Medicare and Medicaid invoices. There are 902,053 physicians in the United States, according to the American Medical Association. According to congressional sources, personal information on patients and medical data were kept in separate files, but there is enough information that files could be linked. [...] -- 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 148 million compromised records in 573 incidents over 7 years.
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