Associated Press reports:
The Veterans Affairs hospital in Fayetteville says documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,100 veterans were found in a recycling bin two months ago.
The Fayetteville VA Medical Center announced Friday it’s notifying the 1,093 affected veterans whose consultation reports from the optical shop were incorrectly placed in a recycle bin over a three-month period. The documents found April 17 contained patients’ names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses and prescriptions.
Read more on Enquirer-Herald. There doesn’t seem to be any statement on the center’s web site as of the time of this posting.