As good as technology is, it can’t protect unsecure, confidential data from clueless computer users - as this latest security breach proves. An employee of the Department of Veterans Affairs took the data home with him - without authorization and presumably, without encryption.

The data, which included names, social security numbers, and dates of birth for veterans and some of their spouses discharged since 1975, was stolen from the unidentified employee’s home somewhere around the Baltimore field office.

“They believe that this was a random burglary and not targeted at this data,” [Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim] Nicholson said, adding that there had been a series of burglaries in that community. “It’s highly probable that they do not know what they have,” he said.

Let’s hope they’re not reading the newspapers or the internet, which might clue them in.

Source: Yahoo! News