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VA Reveals Latest Breach is 535,000 Identities

Posted on Feb 12, 2007 by Tom Fragala

Originally, it was thought the VA external hard drive lost in Alambama recently had data on "only" 48,000 people or so. Today the VA issued a press release saying it was really data on 535,000 people. And that's not all. Apparently there was data on physicians as well The full release is here. I love the title of the press release: "Investigation Yielding Additional Information." And they also did the press release on a Friday, another cynical, CYA move.

VA and VA’s Office of Inspector General have learned that data files the employee was working with may have included sensitive VA-related information on approximately 535,000 individuals. The investigation has also determined that information on approximately 1.3 million non-VA physicians – both living and deceased – could have been stored on the missing hard drive. It is believed though, that most of the physician information is readily available to the public. Some of the files, however, may contain sensitive information.