Friday, November 16, 2007

Deja Vu All Over Again at Veterans Administration

Jaikumar Vijayan writes on ComputerWorld:

In what's become a fairly familiar routine for them of late, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating a potential data breach -- the theft of three computers containing personal data on potentially 12,000 individuals.

Two desktop PCs and one laptop containing that data were stolen from a medical facility in Roudebush, Indiana -- ironically enough, on Veterans Day. The records belong to patients who were treated at the hospital and include Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information.

More here.

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