Hard drive missing from Birmingham VA Medical Center

[The Straight Story]

Hard drive missing from Birmingham VA Medical Center
2/2/2007, 8:07 p.m. CT
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A portable hard drive that may contain personal information on some veterans and was used by an employee at a Veterans Affairs office in Birmingham is missing and may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs said in a statement Friday.

An employee at the Birmingham VA Medical Center reported an external hard drive missing on Jan. 22. The drive was used to back up information on the employee's office computer. It may have contained data from research projects the employee was working on.

The employee also said the hard drive may have had personal information on some veterans, but he said portions of the data were protected.

"This is unacceptable and violates the confidence that thousands of Americans who serve their country have placed in their government," said Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham.

Jim Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs said in a statement that the VA's office and the FBI are conducting a thorough investigation and that the VA's office of information technology is carrying out a separate review.

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[LiberalFighter]

1. Bush has the hard drive

He thinks it is a super big Ipod player.