AP: Government Recovers Stolen Computer

[Eugene]

Government Recovers Stolen Computer

Thursday, September 14, 2006

(09-14) 16:31 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

The government said Thursday it had recovered a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor's
lost desktop computer containing personal data for 16,000 veterans.

The FBI and Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General said Khalil Abdullah-Raheem was
charged Wednesday on theft charges after the Unisys Corp. computer went missing in July.

The computer, which was taken from Unisys' offices in Reston, Va., contained personal data
for veterans who received care at VA medical centers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Abdullah-Raheem, 21, of Washington, was employed by a company that provides temporary labor
to Unisys. Investigators believe he did not target the data, and forensics experts were
determining if the VA data had been compromised.

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Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/14/national/w163107D18.DTL

[HeeBGBz]

1. I thought they got that back several months ago

Is that why they wrote me another letter?

[Eugene]

2. This was from the second theft.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080701086.html

[LiberalFighter]

5. Anymore missing?

Soon

Soon

[annabanana]

3. The question now is:

Was this sitting un-mined in someone's closet somewhere?. . . Or was it copied?

[Bruce McAuley]

4. What it means to the vets getting health care is...

they've added another layer of security to the VA system. The guys on the VA outreach bus that comes every month were shuffling laptops like crazy to get one to work, otherwise they were actually writing stuff down on paper for later.
Seems they'd just got the new layer of security going this week, and NOBODY can get in, not even them!
I ribbed them a little, but felt sorry, it made their job a lot harder. They were shuffling laptops back and forth between themselves to find one that worked so they could actually record the data they were getting.

Bruce

[shanti]

6. isn't that interesting

he has a muslim name :eyes: