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New info on VA breach: phone numbers and medical information?
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 21:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/veterans.data.ap/index.html Personal information on 26.5 million veterans stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month not only included Social Security numbers and birthdates but also in many cases phone numbers and addresses, internal documents show. Meanwhile, VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said Wednesday that he had named a former Arizona prosecutor as a special adviser for information security. The new three-month post will pinpoint security problems at the VA and develop recommendations for improvements, Nicholsons said. The three pages of memos by the VA offer new details on the scope of one of the nation's largest security breaches. The memos, written by privacy officer Mark Whitney and distributed to high-level officials shortly after the May 3 burglary, were obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. They show that a file was breached that contained 6,744 records pertaining to "mustard gas veterans" -- or those who participated in chemical testing programs during World War II. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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