VA worker had OK for data later stolen
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The Veterans Affairs worker faulted for losing veterans&#039; personal information had permission to access millions of Social Security numbers on a laptop from home, agency documents obtained by The Associated Press show.
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Portable device may have been stolen from an Alabama medical center and may house data on as many as 48,000 vets.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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Days after getting busted for attempting to get tech support on a printer he allegedly stole in an incident believed to have exposed the personal info of 500 driver's-license applicants, the Missouri man may have had his personal data inadvertently exposed in a data breach. Timothy Scott Short was previously a suspect in an ID-theft incident.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is once again chasing a missing hard drive, this one containing the records of 48,000 military veterans. Approxiately 20,000 of those records were not encrypted according to agency spokespersons.
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The government agency says four of five incidents involved members of staff accessing databases for unauthorized purposes.
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An IT specialist at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Birmingham, Ala., failed to properly protect sensitive data on an external hard drive lost in January, according to an investigation of the incident by the VA's inspector general.
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Veterans groups say they will keep pressing for improved data security &amp;#151; and free credit monitoring &amp;#151; after the government found the stolen Veterans Affairs laptop computer containing sensitive data on 26.5 million people.
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As part of the fallout from an incident at Los Alamos National Lab in July, five workers have been fired. They are among 23 suspended when computer disks containing classified information went missing.
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The personal data of some 237,000 policy holders at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. -- stored on back-up tapes that were misplaced -- may have been compromised, the company said.
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WASHINGTON - The government said Thursday it had recovered a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor's lost desktop computer containing personal data for 16,000 veterans.
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Department responsible for collecting taxes, administering other services, admits another data loss.
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HARTFORD, Conn. - More than 1,700 state workers recently learned that some of their personal information, including their names and Social Security numbers, had been inadvertently posted on the Internet.
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When data breach investigator Bryan Sartin gets a call to check into an incident involving customer records loss at a retailer, he knows that the situation most likely involves information that has been lifted from a company's point-of-sale systems.
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A Louisana state agency acknowledged that data stored on backup media lost from an Iron Mountain truck contained unencrypted personal data of state residents.
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By Leslie Griffy and Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--A former San Jose medical manager has pleaded guilty to stealing a computer and a CD that contained personal medical information of about 200,000 patients, a state Department of Justice spokeswoman said today.
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SEATTLE, Nov. 6 -- A technician at a cancer center was sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing the identity of a gravely ill patient, who spent months trying to clear his name while the disease ravaged his body.