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. [Read more...]