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[privacy] Lessons Not learned: VA Hard Drive with Personal Data Missing
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 06:18:12 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I mean, come on. For crying out loud; after a new CIO, new policies, etc. this still happens. It's pathetic. Via The Boston Globe (AP). [snip] A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday. An employee at the VA medical center in Birmingham, Ala. reported the external hard drive missing on Jan. 22. The drive was used to back up information on the employee's office computer. It may have contained data from research projects, the department said. The employee also said the hard drive may have had personal information on some veterans, although portions of the data were protected. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson said that the VA and the FBI are investigating. Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., said that the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans was on the hard drive and the records of up to 20,000 of them were not encrypted. [snip] More: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/02/03/va_hard_drive_with_pe rsonal_data_missing/ - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFFxCkhq1pz9mNUZTMRAleXAKCMGHKbjJTRGLGBctv9bK7kOI7ffgCgg0GD c2xyoFejBM4P445ZPF9V9Vo= =we9I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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