It hasn’t even been a year since their last major breech of security involving personal information for our veterans and we get another one: 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 […]
Via the AP Personal data, including the Social Security numbers of 28,000 sailors and members of their families, have been found on a civilian Web site, triggering a criminal investigation. The Navy said Friday the information was in five documents and included people’s names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole […]
I no longer get done posting my last article and look at what pops up: A hacker breached the Agriculture Department’s computer system and may have taken personal information on 26,000 employees, retirees and contractors, the department said, making it the latest federal agency to have had personal data compromised. The potential loss is less […]
And the numbers keep growing and growing and growing. A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said. The computer was stolen Monday from the Washington home of an employee of ING U.S. Financial Services, said officials with the company, […]
We are now reduced from being Americans to being a string of ones and zeros: The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to help screen people at borders and detect immigration fraud. As federal agencies delve into the […]
And here we go yet again. Another company, another theft, another computer, another million people having their information exposed: A thief recently stole a computer server belonging to a major U.S. insurance company, and company officials now fear that the personal data of nearly 1 million people could be at risk, insurance industry sources tell […]
80% of the active military could now be affected by the stolen VA information? This is getting huge: Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel — including nearly 80 percent of the active-duty force — were among the data stolen from the home of a Department […]
What is amazing is how the numbers in this story keeps growing and the government is playing stupid on it: Personal data on more than 2.2 million active-duty military personnel – not just 50,000 as initially believed – were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government said Tuesday. VA Secretary […]
This is turning into a daily event and makes one wonder if they aren’t trying to say “hey computers aren’t safe”: Equipment containing the names and Social Security numbers of about 1.3 million Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corp. borrowers has disappeared, company officials said. There was no evidence the information had been misused, but Texas […]