{"id":26757,"date":"2011-09-30T06:04:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26757"},"modified":"2011-09-30T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:06:56","slug":"data-breach-exposes-4-million-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26757","title":{"rendered":"Data breach exposes 4 million veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROS sends a link to the news<\/a> that some bonehead contractor had computer back up tapestolen which has exposed nearly 5 million veterans’ personal information to fraud;<\/p>\n

The information for some 4.6 million active and retired military personnel, as well as their families, was on back up-tapes from an electronic health care record used to capture and preserve patient data from 1992 through September 7 of this year, according to Science Applications International Corp (SAIC).<\/p>\n

The families used the federal government’s TRICARE health provider. SAIC is the suburban Washington firm that handles military health provider TRICARE’s data.<\/p>\n

The tapes went missing on September 14 when they were “among items stolen from an employee’s car in San Antonio,” SAIC spokesman Vernon Guidry told Reuters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it happened more than two weeks ago, so why are we just finding out about it now? <\/p>\n

The SAIC statement said the company withheld information about the breach until Thursday so it could “determine the degree of risk this data loss represented before making notifications” so as “to not raise undue alarm in our beneficiaries.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, why don’t you let us beneficiaries evaluate the risk for ourselves – when it happens.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that this stuff happens every year – and it’s always a contractor. WHy were the tapes left unattended in a car if the contractor was transferring the tapes between facilities?<\/p>\n

That’s why I have LifeLock, because the government isn’t a good steward of my personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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