VA records found in private home called "grievous injustice to veterans"

Ohio VA hospital records found at private home
Friday, June 29, 2012

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center is notifying 16 people that medical records containing their personal information were found at the former home of a now-deceased employee, drawing more attention to a hospital recently scrutinized amid allegations of poor hygiene at a dental clinic and improper conduct by an anesthesia unit employee.

The home's current owner found the boxed records in an attic and contacted police about two months ago, the Dayton Daily News (http://bit.ly/L6huGY ) reported. The police report indicated no one at the hospital knew why or how someone removed the records, which included birth dates and Social Security numbers.

Former Marine Angelo Arnold of Centerville said he learned about the problem this week in a letter from medical center Director Glenn Costie.

"This is a grievous injustice to veterans," the 51-year-old Arnold told the newspaper.

"Someone has to be accountable at the Dayton VA. This sends a message that certain VA staffers are very careless and reckless with our files."
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National Guard stolen laptop had 131,000 Guardsmen information on it

Stolen laptop holds Guard soldiers’ ID
Staff report
Posted : Tuesday Aug 4, 2009 17:25:17 EDT

Personal information of about 131,000 former and current Army National Guard members may be at risk of identity theft after a contractor’s laptop turned up stolen, the National Guard reported Tuesday.
The laptop was stolen July 27. It contained information for soldiers enrolled in the Guard’s Bonus and Incentives Program, including Social Security numbers, incentive payment amounts and payment dates.
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50,000 names and social security numbers of noncommissioned officers compromised

Names, SSNs compromisedThousands of E-7, E-8 selectees affected

Top News StoryA breakdown in securityPromotion selection lists containing the names and Social Security numbers of more than 50,000 active-component noncommissioned officers were compromised earlier this year and in 2005

Burglers new low, hitting Minneapolis Veterans Home

Server containing sensitive information was stolen from Veterans Home
Missing server contained information about residents and some of their dependents

By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune

Last update: July 18, 2008 - 2:48 PM


It appears that burglars took more than just a laptop computer and sundry electronics when they broke into the Minneapolis Veterans Home early Sunday morning.

Officials at the home say they also made off with a backup server that did include password-protected information about home residents and some dependents, said spokeswoman Anna Lewicki Long.


Thieves broke into two buildings on the campus early Sunday. They took a tool kit, two musical keyboards, a guitar, a Nintendo Wii and a laptop computer that did not contain information about residents, employees or financial data.
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Walter Reed Army Institute of Research dumped personal info into trash

Army Lab Documents Found in Trash Bin
By Associated Press
9:40 AM EDT, August 21, 2007

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Boxes of documents containing personal information from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research were supposed to be shredded but instead turned up last week in a trash bin, police said.

A resident of a suburban Washington neighborhood near the Army medical research's campus found the boxes Friday and alerted Montgomery County police.

The files were research study records, said Cynthia Vaughn, a public affairs officer for the U.S. Army Medical Command. An investigation is under way to determine precisely what information they held and why they appeared off base, Vaughn said Monday. Police said most were from the late 1990s and were likely placed in the bin on the same day they were discovered.