9/11, 9/11- in the rush to war, it's all we heard about. We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them here at home.
But what happens when we are attacked here at home with still more epic incompetence? Is the primary organization charged with serving our veterans really just a bunch of idiots driving around in a clown car?
Personal data on every veteran discharged between 1975 and April 2006 was
stolen from the home of a department employee who had improperly taken the
information out of the office. The files included the names, Social Security
numbers, dates of birth and some disability information for the veterans.
Hackett
Files Lawsuit on Behalf of 26.5 Million Vets
CINCINNATI (AP) -- A Cincinnati attorney has filed a federal lawsuit on
behalf of 26.5 million veterans whose personal information was on a
stolen computer disk.
The suit asks the Department of Veterans Affairs to compensate the
veterans and pay for credit monitoring.
Paul Hackett filed the suit yesterday in US District Court in nearby
Covington, Kentucky.
Hackett is a Marine reservist who served in Iraq and ran unsuccessfully
for Congress last year.
The suit asks the VA to pay damages of at least one-thousand dollars
per veteran.
VA officials say the disk stolen from a data analyst's home in early
May included Social Security numbers and birth dates, and in many cases
phone numbers and addresses.
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Personal data on every veteran discharged between 1975 and April 2006 was stolen from the home of a department employee who had improperly taken the information out of the office. The files included the names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and some disability information for the veterans.
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