Lucky Break of the Year
Well, it’s more than luck, because there has obviously been a large-scale effort to recover the laptop stolen from the Veterans Administration, but the luck has to do with what was done with the data on it — nothing:
The government has recovered the stolen laptop computer and hard drive with sensitive data on up to 26.5 million veterans and military personnel. The FBI said Thursday there is no evidence that anyone accessed Social Security numbers and other data on the equipment.
Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, in announcing the recovery of the computer, said there have been no reports of identity theft stemming from the May 3 burglary at a VA employee’s Maryland home.
The FBI, in a statement from its Baltimore field office, said a preliminary review of the equipment by its computer forensic teams “has determined that the data base remains intact and has not been accessed since it was stolen.”
I would hope that the privacy organizations and others who are tracking and listing data breaches update their records accordingly. I have updated my posts on this matter here, here, and here.
