| FBI seeks stolen personal data on 26 million vets |
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Federal agents are trying to recover personal data on more than 26 million U.S. veterans after an apparently random burglary at the home of a computer analyst, Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said Monday.
Burglars made off with a computer disc that contained the veterans' names, Social Security numbers and birth dates during a break-in this month at the home of a department data analyst, Nicholson told reporters.
The question here at ID Theft Alerts is why can any employee ever pull so much data off of a server? Social security number should only be available to employees with a specific need to perform a service, not for some data-mining project.
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| Qwest's new title - Privacy Champion |
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Before last week's report that Qwest Communications was apparently the lone holdout among the four largest U.S. telecommunications companies secretly supplying the National Security Agency with Americans' phone-call records, online grumblers often called Qwest by a different name: "Qworst."
Whether or not that reputation has been healed by the company's unexpected, and perhaps overstated, turn as a defiant protector of consumer privacy is unclear. A hastily conducted Washington Post-ABC News poll did suggest on Friday that 63 percent of Americans thought that the security agency's program was "an acceptable way to investigate terrorism."
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| Medical identity theft horror story |
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Dorothy Moran's used Anndroie Sachs' identity when giving birth. The theft has left Anndroie with a quagmire of legal and medical records to correct. Not only is she being persued by bill collectors for the $10,000 in unpaid hospital bills but she has incorrect records at the hospital for the birth. Worst of all her name was used on the birth certificate of the baby. Now she is fighting to clear up the records for the child also.
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