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Disabled Veteran Receives Other Veterans’ Personal Data By Mistake
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:00:00 -0500
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/39113492.html WACO (February 4, 2009)--Just a week after the Veterans Affairs Department agreed to pay $20 million to veterans for exposing them to possible identity theft in 2006 by losing sensitive personal information in a stolen laptop computer, a local veterans association mistakenly sent out personal information about disabled veterans in the mail. Gerry Sparks, a disabled veteran, received a packet in the mail with the application for her daughter's tuition benefits. At the bottom of the packet, was a claims log that listed more than 20 veterans names, social security numbers and medical claim information. After looking at the page, Sparks said she realized she should not have received that information. "At first I didn't think much of it and then I was like, yeah it's got everyone's social security number on it," Sparks said. The top of the claims log is labeled "Texas Veterans Commission," but neither the Commission nor the Veterans Affairs Regional Office is sure who is to blame for the incident. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) CREDANT Technologies, a leader in data security, offers advanced data encryption solutions. Protect sensitive data on desktops, laptops, smartphones and USB sticks transparently across your enterprise to ensure regulatory compliance. http://www.credant.com/stopdataloss
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