Stolen USB stick exposes PII of entire Idaho National Guard
A small computer drive containing Social Security numbers and personal information about every Army National Guard soldier in Idaho was stolen.
The device containing information on aproximately 3,400 soldiers was stolen Monday night out of a soldier's car.
Affected National Guard members are being notified by phone and mail.
"You name it, it was on there," Dowling said of the USB drive.
On Tuesday evening the guard activated a phone tree normally used for natural disasters or state emergencies to contact all the soldiers.
Last year, Veterans Affairs lost data on 26.5 million veterans when computer equipment was stolen in Maryland. In January, a VA hospital in Birmingham, Ala., lost sensitive data on more than 1.5 million people when a hard drive vanished.
www.idahoarmyguard.org
The device containing information on aproximately 3,400 soldiers was stolen Monday night out of a soldier's car.
Affected National Guard members are being notified by phone and mail.
"You name it, it was on there," Dowling said of the USB drive.
On Tuesday evening the guard activated a phone tree normally used for natural disasters or state emergencies to contact all the soldiers.
Last year, Veterans Affairs lost data on 26.5 million veterans when computer equipment was stolen in Maryland. In January, a VA hospital in Birmingham, Ala., lost sensitive data on more than 1.5 million people when a hard drive vanished.
www.idahoarmyguard.org
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