'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Personal information on 26.5 million veterans was stolen from the home of a data analyst in what appears to have been a random burglary, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday.
The computer records include names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth, Nicholson said. The Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed the theft Monday and said it has seen no indication that the information has been misused.
The missing data does not include health records or financial information, the department said. It does include some disability ratings and data on some veterans' spouses.' - [cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com]


Well, this really sucks!

Ha Ha.

I was in the Army long before 1975. The cutoff date in the article. Even before they had computers.

Those were the days.

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A man who is of "sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
(Paul Valery)

The way things are going the Congress will give those that steal our identification
the right to use it!

It's another vote-harvesting scheme by some leftist stooge.

Another good article at CNNMoney
[money.cnn.com]
What to do if your personal identification is stolen.

Why isn't this info encrypted so that it's useless outside of the VA's own network?

I say "lynch him!"

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The Taoist Zhuangzi said, "Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone".
The sociologist, and historian, Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".

I only skimmed the article, but I didn't see if they said where the home was located. I'm also curious what the laws are about such data where the home is. In Washington, if such data was not encrypted the owner would be forced to shell out, in this case, tens of millions of dollars.

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