2007 — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: An employee reported a portable hard drive stolen…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
An employee reported
a portable hard drive stolen or missing that might contain personal
information about veterans including Social Security numbers.
UPDATE (2/10/07):
VA increases number of affected veterans to 535,000,
included in the total below.
UPDATE (2/12/07):
VA reported that billing information for 1.3 million doctors was
also exposed, including names and Medicare bill
Root cause
Portable device theft