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Another PC with veteran's data is missing. This time a desk top PC
has gone missing from the offices of VA subcontractor Unisys, which is
believed to have contained private data, medical data, and billing
records on 18,000 to 38,000 veterans.<br><br>
Where the May 3 incident was a laptop burglarized from an employee's
home, this is a desk top PC gone missing from Reston Virginia offices of
a Veteran's Administration subcontractor,
<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Unisys Cor</b>p</font>., which had been
hired to assist the VA in insurance collections. Also in recent
weeks the VA has acknowledged losing sensitive data for more than 16,000
veterans in at least two other cases in Minneapolis and
Indianapolis.<br><br>
Ted Davies, a managing partner at Unisys, said a company employee who
regularly used the desktop computer reported it missing July 31. Company
officials then scoured the building three times and sought to determine
what data were lost before reporting it to the VA. <br><br>
The computer was located in a building with security guards and on a
floor where security cards are required for access, and there were no
signs of a break-in, he said. The office PC was in a cubicle and was
password protected, but the data was not encrypted.<br><br>
The data on up to 38,000 US veterans may include:<br>
* name, address, date of birth, social security #s.<br>
* patients' insurance carriers and billing information, dates of military
service and claims information that may include some medical information.
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The VA believes the records are on: <br>
about 5,000 patients treated at the VA medical center in Philadelphia;
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about 11,000 seen at a VA facility in Pittsburgh during the past four
years; <br>
as well as about 2,000 deceased veterans. The VA is also
investigating whether the computer contained information on about another
20,000 people who were treated at the Pittsburgh medical center.<br><br>
The VA's Inspector General, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation,
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Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Response Team, and
local law enforcement agencies are conducting a thorough
investigation. <br>
Members of Congress also were notified.<br><br>
Unisys said it will be working with VA regarding the notification of
potentially affected veterans and the offering of credit
monitoring<br><br>
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