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[Nvyseal]

images/news/security.jpgIn what's become a fairly familiar routine for them of late, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating a potential data breach -- the theft of three computers containing personal data on potentially 12,000 individuals.

Two desktop PCs and one laptop containing that data were stolen from a medical facility in Roudebush, Indiana -- ironically enough, on Veterans Day. The records belong to patients who were treated at the hospital and include Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information.

"It appears from this most recent breach that there are still some in the VA, even some responsible for the security of such data, who don't realize the importance of the security of the names and data of our veterans," Congressman Steve Buyer (R-Ind) said in a prepared statement.

Computerworld

[m.oreilly]

it's amazing: the public concern and the IT "pros" attitudes...inside jobs should be easy to trace, and data should be encrypted via proprietary apps, so at a power down (which must occur in an actual 'removal from the office' theft), these thieving cork soakers would be left with gibberish when trying to do a retrieval. banj0 is involved with the VA bureaucracy. i bet he would have some erudite insights...