Sunday, February 04, 2007

VA and FBI Investigate Missing Hard Drive

WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced that an employee reported a government-owned, portable hard drive used by the employee at a Department facility in Birmingham, Ala. – and potentially containing personal information about some veterans – is missing and may have been stolen.

The Official Press Release is available at the VA website HERE.

This is the
second major data loss that the VA has experienced during the last 12 months. Last year [May 22, 2006] they reported losing a laptop containing data of 26.5 million veterans.

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