[privacy] Personal Data on U.S. Border Soldiers Stolen

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

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Via The Tuscaloosa News (props, attrition.org).

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A computer hard drive containing Social Security numbers and other personal
information on nearly 1,300 California National Guard troops deployed to
the U.S.-Mexico border has apparently been stolen.

The hard drive was reported missing Feb. 23 from the Guard's border mission
headquarters inside San Diego Naval Base, said California National Guard
spokesman Lt. Col. Jon Siepmann. It contains home addresses, birth dates
and other identifying information for all soldiers serving long-term
assignments on the border.

The Guard notified the soldiers Feb. 28 that their information had been
compromised. It advised them to begin checking credit statements and take
other protective measures.

The Guard has turned the investigation over to the Navy's Criminal
Investigative Division, Siepmann said.

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More:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070309/APA/703092833

- - ferg


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