May 22, 2006


Oh, great

To all my brethren, on either side of the ideological divide, this is pretty bad news.

Personal data, including Social Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans, was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson said there was no evidence so far that the burglars who struck the employee's home have used the personal data _ or even know they have it. The employee, a data analyst whom Nicholson would not identify, has been placed on leave pending a review.

Nicholson, like every other 1600 Crew official will not be held accountable. They never are.

The VA needs to pay for every veteran to have unlimited lifetime "credit/fraud insurance", because those SSN's are prime territory for sale to the credit-scam artists. 26+ million of them means a smart burgular retires today. The VA also needs to get with the DoJ and Social Security Administration to change the SSN's of all of us. Like now, because we are all Pwn3d. For life.

I'm sure that well all get solicitiations from the major credit bureaus and other assorted scum-suckers for "protection", because the 1600 Crew will sell all our data to them to, of course, "help" us.

Uh-huh.

posted by Jo Fish on 05.22.06 at 02:12 PM





Comments:

I'm sorry Jo, but what a bunch of dumb fucks!
I wonder if it has anything to do with the Veterans Benefits and Social Security Disability Insurance study voted on Friday?

posted by: Seven of Six on 05.22.06 at 04:10 PM [permalink]



This sounds too convenient, to acquire the personal details of vets? I smell a rat.

posted by: Branedy on 05.22.06 at 06:51 PM [permalink]



Unfortunately, I'm almost certainly part of that data set. Any chance I could cancel my SS account instead of my credit cards? Would sure make things easier.

Keep up the good work Jo.

posted by: Rob in IL on 05.22.06 at 09:59 PM [permalink]



I'm with Rob - lemme cancel my Soc #, and we'll take it from there.

They've got until the end of this week or so, then I'm saying that taking a rusty Marine K-bar to DC, and looking up this asshole... maybe might not be a bad idea. His carved off nuts on Nicholson's desk might send a strong message. *(I'll go back and check, but I believe the Detroit Free Press named the idiot)*

Semper Fidelis

posted by: Barndog on 05.23.06 at 04:23 AM [permalink]



Hey, at least those fine credit report companies will now get a 50 year income stream from Uncle Sam (okay, from us working stiffs), to protect us from the incompetence of GWB. Wonder how much stock they own in those companies.

posted by: Fred on 05.23.06 at 11:48 AM [permalink]



I'm trying to follow this issue pretty closely at allspinzone.com - the demographics of impact are pretty lousy for those of us discharged since 1975. If you fit that profile (or had any business with the VA, if prior discharge year), you're probably impacted.

posted by: Richard Cranium on 05.23.06 at 02:02 PM [permalink]



I have a different suspicion.
Does anyone know further details of this missing data? Did it include the addresses and/or phone numbers of vets?? (It would seem so, as I cannot see anyone bothering to take the file home if it didn't have more than just names and SSNs). If so, it would be enormously attractive to the mailing list companies; 27 Million people - mostly householders - with up-to-date addresses!

Those mailing list companies pay something for every name & address they get. If they paid a mere ten cents for each name & address on this VA list (which would be an uncommonly low payoff), the guy who provides them with that list in one convenient transaction will make more than two million dollars, more than he'd ever make from working for the VA.

What I cannot figure out is How he brought 27 Million names and other personal data home. Even without anything but the names, I cannot see how 27 Million names could be put on a diskette or even a CD.

Of course, we hear this the same week that the White House announces it's going to track our phone calls and compile everyone's medical data -- but don't worry, it's the govt doing this so they'll be real protective of our privacy.

posted by: Bernard Sussman on 05.23.06 at 02:13 PM [permalink]



Part of the plan to kill the VA and Social Security.

Nothing else was stolen from his house? Inside job.

They have to scrub voting rolls of those vets as well.

posted by: Mr.Murder on 05.28.06 at 11:35 AM [permalink]






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