US Veterans Health Administration Jul 2017 Physical Action (Q16215)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Veterans Health Administration Jul 2017 Physical Action |
A data breach risk event |
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July 2017
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Two USB hard drives containing personally-identifiable Veteran information were stolen from a Veterans Health Administration contract employee in Oklahoma on July 18, 2017. The Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane has notified 1915 Veterans whose information might have been compromised. The employee was at a service call at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center when the hard drives were stolen. The employee filed a local police report. One of the stolen hard drives was the Master Drive used to copy and move the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Centers Anesthesia Record Keeper database from a physical server that was not connected to a network. The information was archived during the week of January 16, 2017. The Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center can not say exactly what information was st (English)
