[Dataloss] More info on Department of Veterans Affairs breach

[Beth Givens]

The VA's information page is woefully inadequate.

The VA's web page is woefully and shamefully lacking fyi.

You might be interested in our tip sheet for veterans:
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/VABreach.htm

We are going to add a section to our tip sheet over the weekend that 
suggests advocacy actions vets can take re: legislation, HIPAA 
complaints, and Privacy Act violations.

Beth

At 11:43 AM 5/26/2006, lyger wrote:

>(Not to over-do the VA story, but here are a couple of links I hadn't
>known of before today)
>
>General information about the breach (including the phrase "extra
>vigilant" used four or five times):
>
>http://firstgov.gov/veteransinfo.shtml
>
>$50,000 reward offered for information leading to recovery of the stolen
>hardware:
>
>http://www.firstgov.gov/veterans_reward_offered.pdf
>
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