[Dataloss] IDs of Active-Duty Military Personnel on Stolen VA Laptop

[lyger]

(The saga continues.  As mentioned in the story, this goes beyond the 
initial VA report.)

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060604/BREAKING/60604004

June 04. 2006 1:38PM
By Hope Yen, Associated Press

Personal data on up to 50,000 active Navy and National Guard personnel were 
among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government 
said Saturday in a disclosure that goes beyond what VA initially reported.

VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said in a statement that his agency discovered after 
an internal investigation that the names, Social Security numbers and dates of 
birth of up to 20,000 National Guard and Reserve personnel who were on at least 
their second active-duty call-up were "potentially included."

In addition, the same information on up to 30,000 active-duty Navy personnel 
who completed their first enlistment term prior to 1991 also were believed to 
stored on the computer laptop and disks stolen from a VA data analyst at his 
Aspen Hill, Md., home on May 3.

The VA has previously said the stolen data involved up to 26.5 million veterans 
discharged since 1975, as well as some of their spouses; veterans discharged 
before 1975 also were deemed at risk if they submitted claims to the agency.

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