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(article) "We recovered the laptop!" ... so what?
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 00:03:02 -0500 (EST)
http://attrition.org/dataloss/forensics.html Wed Feb 07 21:55:51 EDT 2007 Jericho and Lyger In May of 2006, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs publicly disclosed the fact that "Personal data on about 26.5 million U.S. military veterans was stolen from the residence of a Department of Veterans Affairs data analyst who improperly took the material home", prompting a mass concern that the information, if in the wrong hands, could have led to multiple cases of identity theft. At the very least, the fear that even a government entity could have let such sensitive data fall into the wrong hands led many to wonder about the data security of less protected sources. The additional fact that the breach wasn't disclosed for almost three weeks after the theft did little to initially ease those fears. Weeks later, the stolen laptop and hard drive were recovered from the back of a truck at a black market sale and sent to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for analysis. At the end of June 2006, the FBI issued a declaration that "the personal data on the hardware was not accessed by thieves" to which VA Secretary R. James Nicholson stated "This is a reason to be optimistic. It's a very positive note in this entire tragic event." The question that needs to be asked, however, is how could they be absolutely sure that the data wasn't accessed? Simply because the FBI said so? [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 146 million compromised records in 562 incidents over 7 years.
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