Veterans' Personal Data at Risk

Today’s report that more than 26 million veterans and their spouses may now be exposed to identity theft because a federal employee violated government policy by taking home a computer disk with veterans’ personal information, a disk that was later stolen during a burglary of the employee’s home, threatens to be a headache for many people for a long time.

Perhaps the thief doesn’t realize what he has and has already tossed it and the veterans will dodge the danger of identity theft.
But if the thieves, assuming there was more than one, understand what they have—including names, Social Security numbers, and birthdates—many innocent people could wind up experiencing the nightmare of identity theft.

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