2006 — US Military: The Veterans Affairs Department agreed to pay $20…
Technical writeup
The Veterans Affairs Department agreed to pay $20 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the loss of a laptop. The department originally took three weeks to report the theft. The laptop was recovered with the data apparently intact a month after it was reported stolen. But it is impossible to say with absolute certainty that the data was not accessed and copied.
Root cause
Lost / stolen device