[privacy] Lessons Not learned: VA Hard Drive with Personal Data Missing

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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I mean, come on. For crying out loud; after a new CIO, new
policies, etc. this still happens.

It's pathetic.

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to
48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs
and a lawmaker said Friday.

An employee at the VA medical center in Birmingham, Ala. reported the
external hard drive missing on Jan. 22. The drive was used to back up
information on the employee's office computer. It may have contained data
from research projects, the department said.

The employee also said the hard drive may have had personal information on
some veterans, although portions of the data were protected. Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson said that the VA and the FBI are
investigating.

Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said that the personal information of up to
48,000 veterans was on the hard drive and the records of up to 20,000 of
them were not encrypted.

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/02/03/va_hard_drive_with_pe
rsonal_data_missing/

- - ferg

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