US Department of Veterans Affairs 2013 Technical Error (Q14139)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | US Department of Veterans Affairs 2013 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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C841D130-132E-4939-A7FD-052171319F33
January 2013
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The inspector general of the National Archives and Records Administration is investigating a potential data breach affecting tens of millions of records about U.S. military veterans, Wired.com has learned. The issue involves a defective hard drive the agency sent back to its vendor for repair and recycling without first destroying the data. The hard drive helped power eVetRecs, the system veterans use to request copies of their health records and discharge papers. When the drive failed in November of last year, the agency returned the drive to GMRI, the contractor that sold it to them, for repair. GMRI determined it couldnt be fixed, and ultimately passed it to another firm to be recycled. The drive was part of a RAID array of six drives containing an Oracle database that held detailed re (English)
