[Dataloss] [update] Birmingham VA laptop

[sawaba]

These guys are easily going to make and hold the #1 spot on the "Repeat 
Offenders" list if they keep losing data like this.

--Sawaba

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Dissent wrote:

> http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/16683496.htm
>
>
> The Department of Veterans Affairs began notifying 1.8 million
> veterans and doctors Monday that their personal and business
> information could be on a portable hard drive that has been missing
> from an Alabama hospital for nearly three weeks.
>
> [...]
>
> [U.S. Rep. Artur Davis] said the department told him that the missing
> storage unit included the Social Security numbers and names of about
> 10,000 people, plus another 525,000 Social Security numbers. The
> information on doctors includes names and Medicare billing codes, he said.
>
> [...]
>
> Also:
>
> http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0207/021207p1.htm
>
> [...]
>
>
> The data for the 1.3 million physicians who have billed Medicaid and
> Medicare, both living and deceased, could result in widespread fraud,
> such as the creation of fake Medicare and Medicaid invoices.
>
> There are 902,053 physicians in the United States, according to the
> American Medical Association.
>
> According to congressional sources, personal information on patients
> and medical data were kept in separate files, but there is enough
> information that files could be linked.
>
> [...]
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