[Dataloss] New info on VA breach: phone numbers and medical information?

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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/31/veterans.data.ap/index.html

Personal information on 26.5 million veterans stolen from a Veterans Affairs 
employee this month not only included Social Security numbers and birthdates 
but also in many cases phone numbers and addresses, internal documents show.

Meanwhile, VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said Wednesday that he had named a former 
Arizona prosecutor as a special adviser for information security.

The new three-month post will pinpoint security problems at the VA and develop 
recommendations for improvements, Nicholsons said.

The three pages of memos by the VA offer new details on the scope of one of the 
nation's largest security breaches.

The memos, written by privacy officer Mark Whitney and distributed to 
high-level officials shortly after the May 3 burglary, were obtained 
Wednesday by The Associated Press.

They show that a file was breached that contained 6,744 records pertaining 
to "mustard gas veterans" -- or those who participated in chemical testing 
programs during World War II.

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