Some summary numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs Quarterly Notice to Congress on Data Breaches for the
4th Quarter 2010:
Overall, there were 5,090 notification of data loss letters mailed or pending mailing and 1,552 notification of credit protection letters mailed or pending mailing for the quarter.
The bigger incidents that occurred during the quarter have previously been covered on this site and/or on DataBreaches.net, with the largest being an incident in Boston that affected 3,936.