VA suffers another data breach

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette is reporting that this time a computer tape was lost at an Indiana Veterans Affairs office—back in May. And it was revealed that back in 2005 the VA suffered a loss of veterans information, as well.

A computer tape with information about more than 12,000 veterans – including Hoosiers -- was lost from a locked office in the Indianapolis Veterans Administration office on May 5, Congress was told Thursday. The missing tape included confidential material about veterans’ legal cases, the VA’s top lawyer told the Veterans Affairs Committee.

At the hearing on Thursday, Nicholson also told Buyer that information about 66 veterans was lost in 2005 in Minneapolis when a rental car was stolen. Papers with the veterans’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers and other information was in the trunk of the car that had been rented by an auditor who was examining the financial records of the agency, he said.