Many data security losses go unreported or are publicized months or years after first discovery. The promise to protect personal information is virtually impossible for any industry to make and uphold in our present world.
On May 21, 2011, it was released that Military members are again the target of a data breach. TRICARE Management Activity of Colorado reported that 4,500 individuals were affected by a breach involving paper records that occurred on June 25, 2010.
The military has multiple data losses and continues to experience breaches. The most well known breach was May 3,2006, where a data analyst at Veterans Affairs took home a laptop and an external hard drive containing unencrypted information on 26.5 million veterans.
The end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010, ended and began with military data security breaches.
A laptop computer containing names and Personally Identifiable
Information for approximately 42,000 Fort Belvoir Morale, Welfare
and Recreation patrons was stolen on November 28th 2009.
On January 14th, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) released that 18,000 recipients of a special pay for disabled retirees, were sent to wrong addressees.The error occurred when the DAPS document duplicating system malfunctioned.
This is one one many breaches first reported a year after it occurred. What is highly disturbing is that there was no media coverage of this one or any statement on a TRICARE site.
Identity theft ruins lives, do a search on youtube or any search engine and see how many lives have been shattered, many of our military members.
Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist (CITRMS)
