[Dataloss] (SAIC update) 900, 000 health records possibly compromised

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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/07/military_saicdatabreach_070720w/

The personal health care records of close to 900,000 troops, family 
members and other government employees stored on a private defense 
contractor.s nonsecure computer server were exposed to compromise, the 
company announced Friday.

SAIC said the information, maintained under several Tricare health care 
contracts with the Defense Department, included combinations of names, 
addresses, Social Security numbers, birth dates and/or "limited health 
information in the form of codes." It was stored on a single, SAIC-owned, 
nonsecure server "at a small SAIC location" and was in some cases 
transmitted over the Internet in an unencrypted form. The information was 
exposed while being processed, the company said.

Although SAIC announced the data breach Friday, the company acknowledged 
it has known about the problems since May 29, when U.S. Air Forces Europe 
notified SAIC that it had detected "an unsecure transmission of personal 
information concerning uniformed service members and other individuals," 
according to a SAIC press release.

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