NC veterans' personal data left in recycle bin

[Erica Absetz <erica () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.enquirerherald.com/2013/06/14/2532367/nc-veterans-personal-data-left.html

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. --

The Veterans Affairs hospital in Fayetteville says documents
containing the personal information of nearly 1,100 veterans were
found in a recycling bin two months ago.

The Fayetteville VA Medical Center announced Friday it's notifying the
1,093 affected veterans whose consultation reports from the optical
shop were incorrectly placed in a recycle bin over a three-month
period. The documents found April 17 contained patients' names, Social
Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and prescriptions.

Officials say there's no indication the information has been misused.
But the hospital is notifying veterans who visited the optical shop
between Jan. 11 and April 16 and offering them free credit monitoring
services.

The hospital says the staff member who had been collecting the
documents was retrained on what items should be shredded.
_______________________________________________
Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org)
Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/
Unsubscribe at http://lists.osvdb.org/mailman/listinfo/dataloss-discuss

Supporters:

Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/)
Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk
management services and on-demand security solutions to establish
customized risk-based programs to address information security and
compliance challenges. 

Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/)
Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time
vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface
for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and
report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.