Computer contains personal information--including social
security
numbers--of about 36,000 people.
Grant Gross, IDG News Service
Tuesday, August 08, 2006 06:00 AM PDT
WASHINGTON -- A desktop PC containing the personal
information of up to
36,000 U.S. military veterans has gone missing from U.S.
Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) subcontractor Unisys, the VA announced
yesterday.
The PC may have contained VA patients' names, addresses,
Social Security
Numbers, dates of birth, insurance carriers and billing
information, dates
of military service, and claims data that may include some
medical
information, the VA said. Unisys notified the VA on Thursday
that the
computer was missing from the subcontractor's Reston,
Virginia, offices.
The VA immediately dispatched a team to Unisys to assist in
the search for
computer and to help determine what information it held, the
VA said in a
press release.
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Daniel Jimenez
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