Via GCN.com -
The Veterans Affairs Department today revealed that personal, identifying data for as many as 26 million American veterans was stolen from a VA employee's home in May. The information is a list of all veterans who served in the military and were discharged since 1975. A VA employee took files home as part of department work on a data collation project to simplify some VA processes. Subsequently, someone broke into the employee’s home and stole the data. The career employee, a data analyst, was not authorized to take the files home, said VA secretary Jim Nicholson in a teleconference with reporters. He would not say what form the data was in.
I am going to guess and say CSV. ;)
In light of this news, William Jackson wrote a pretty good little article over at GCN.com as well. It is just a reminder that we aren't just holding a PC in our hands, we are holding data that other people might want.
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