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5,051 records with personal info of Virginia vets discovered in fired ex-Veteran Services employee’s storage unit

Posted on December 2, 2016 by Dissent

There’s a follow-up to a breach first disclosed in October. Mark Bowes reports:

More than 5,000 “personally identifiable” records of Virginia veterans – including nearly 700 benefit claims that went unfiled, were filed late or missing key documents – were included in boxes of paperwork discovered in the storage unit of a fired Virginia Department of Veterans Services employee who worked at the agency’s benefits office at McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

[…]

Because of the ongoing criminal probe, Veterans Services has not contacted the employee who the agency fired on Aug. 25, 2015, a little over a year before the records were discovered in her storage unit. They were mixed with the employee’s personal papers and possessions.

Consequently, agency officials don’t have any explanation why the documents – dated between 2011 and mid-2015 – were hoarded in her storage unit. Ninety percent were from the 2013 and 2014 time frame, Herthel said.

Read more on Richmond.com. And once again, great thanks to the reader who sent this in.

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