U.S. Veterans Agency Missing Millions in IT Equipment
Grant Gross writes on CSO Online:
A government audit of four U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) centers found US$6.4 million worth of missing or misplaced IT equipment, according to a report released Tuesday.More here.
Inventories in fiscal 2005 and 2006 found about 2,400 missing IT devices at the four VA locations, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said. Among the missing items were dozens of computers that could have stored personal information.
The GAO also found computer hard drives being disposed of containing the names, Social Security numbers or medical histories of hundreds of U.S. military veterans.
About 28 percent of the IT equipment at the VA medical center in Washington, D.C., was missing or misplaced, the GAO said.
posted by Fergie @ 7/24/2007 04:32:00 PM
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