Remember that stolen data on 26,500,000 veterans?

[unhappycamper]

IDs of active personnel on stolen laptop
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 3, 7:51 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Personal data on up to 50,000 active Navy and National Guard personnel were among those stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee last month, the government said Saturday in a disclosure that goes beyond what VA initially reported.

VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said in a statement that his agency discovered after an internal investigation that the names,
Social Security numbers and dates of birth of up to 20,000 National Guard and Reserve personnel who were on at least their second active-duty call-up were "potentially included."

In addition, the same information on up to 30,000 active-duty Navy personnel who completed their first enlistment term prior to 1991 also were believed to stored on the computer laptop and disks stolen from a VA data analyst at his Aspen Hill, Md., home on May 3.

The VA has previously said the stolen data involved up to 26.5 million veterans discharged since 1975, as well as some of their spouses; veterans discharged before 1975 also were deemed at risk if they submitted claims to the agency.



Oops.

[babylonsister]

1. Some reward these soldiers are receiving for serving their country.

At what point do you think they all might feel a tad disillusioned? :-(

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. There are a lot of these things surfacing again.

I am not a big believer in coincidence. Something is up, most likely trafficking in this data. If that is going on, then insiders are involved, to target these stolen laptops. Either that, or they are conveniently making the laptops available to be stolen.

[lindisfarne]

4. I'm amazed that there have been 20 million or so vets since 1975.

(some of the 26.5 million SS#s were from spouses). Do we have even 1 million active duty troops right now? And they serve for a number of years. 20 million vets must mean that the SS# of virtually every vet since 1975 was on that computer.

[donsu]

3. I think all of this is planned. too much info is being lost or stolen to

be just happenstance.

[Richard Steele]

5. You betcha. What burglar bothers to steal a stack of data CDs?

That's bullshit- no one would steal such worthless crap.

The average burglar swipes whatever he can carry and sell
for cash the same day...
he wouldn't waste time swiping generic
disks any more than he'd bother to steal the used maxi-pads
out of your wifes garbage can.

UNLESS...they weren't just an ordinary burglar...
AND they already knew what those CDs contained...
AND they had contacts willing to PAY for what they contained.

And why has no one addressed the VERY UNUSUAL fact
that a government employee was taking MILLIONS of files
to his home in the first place?

Nope, it doesn't add up to "burglary" at all.

All signs point to:
"burglary used as a lame-assed alibi to coverup a poorly-executed INSIDE JOB"

[Richard Steele]

6. Self-Deleted DUPE...the dreaded accidental double post!

"Click here if this page does not refresh", it said...LOL!