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4, 000 Social Security numbers potentially exposed in VA mismailing
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:11:02 -0400
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/4-000-social-security-numbers-potentially-exposed-va-mismailing/2010-10-14 A Veterans Benefit Administration office in Boston sent 6,299 benefit summary letters to the wrong addresses in August, more than half of them containing complete social security numbers. Of the letters, 3,936 contained all nine digits of someone else's social security number, and 2,386 contained the VBA claim number of veterans based in the state. That's according to an update on data breaches the VA sends to Congress each month. The report blames the incident on a programming error. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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