All Veterans' SSN's stolen

PolkThug
PolkThug Posts: 7,532
edited April 2 in Clubhouse Archives
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12916803/
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited June 2006
    PolkThug covers top story in record time! NOT...
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited June 2006
    lol That's why I got fired from The Emergency Broadcast System Agency.
    Never Forget
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited June 2006
    its a shame, but they will about at the same risk as any one else for identity theft. its brutal when it happenns, not life shattering, but a real P.I.T.A. I suggest anyone run there credit bureau every year, because for every story like this reported, there are ways to get a ss number that isnt reported.

    a ss number, birthday, name and address (the more current, the better) is all that is needed to commit ID theft. snyone can do it, its a question of who has the balls (i.e. criminal scumbags)

    I run my credit bureau every year and check it thoroughly, it should actually be done twice a year. if your buying a house within a year or two, it should be done more often than that, beacause clearing off erroneous and fraudulent stuff will be alot more stressful with a closing timeline hovering on the horizen.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited June 2006
    Great..just **** great. That's all I need to worry about right now.:mad: :mad:
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited June 2006
    hopefully the lowlifes that stole the hardware don't realize what they have and no one is at risk.

    i wonder how many more situations like this are going to have to occur before the IT/computer industry comes up with better way of securing data. I know nothing is fool proof and and some level you will always have risk associated with employees who have access, but stuff like this happens every day.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited June 2006
    Well they surely know now what they have after it being blasted all over the news.
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited June 2006
    I remember reading that it was at least 3 weeks after the data was stolen that the story was broken to the press in hopes it could be recovered before alerting the criminals to the data they had.
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  • Refefer
    Refefer Posts: 1,280
    edited June 2006
    It's far too easy to take databases from a company, as an employee or otherwise. I've actual done some of legal version of "data theft" for a past employer to check his security. Employees are idiots and will give you anything you want if you claim to be tech support. Many don't even know the value of their own data.

    Now that I'm at aol, all the information under my control that can be used for any sort of identity track is encrypted and tied into our RSA badges, needing to be validated by a server before decryption occurs. Someone can take my database and it'd be impossible to access it now.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    edited June 2006
    It's already been done.

    The ex- did that. :rolleyes:


    I didn't know Polk Thug worked for FEMA. ;)
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited June 2006
    recovered!
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13613727/
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,647
    edited June 2006
    Excellent!
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited June 2006
    PolkThug wrote:
    recovered!
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13613727/
    Excuse me, but you're not supposed to be reporting this for another week..... ;)
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited June 2006
    brettw22 wrote:
    Excuse me, but you're not supposed to be reporting this for another week..... ;)

    :D:D:D
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  • petrym
    petrym Posts: 1,912
    edited June 2006
    Got it back too http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_go_ot/vets_data_theft
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited June 2006
    "no evidence the data was accessed" ???

    couldn't someone just plug the hard drive into a commercial drive replicater/ghost machine and no "evidence" would be present?

    a really smart person who would want to keep that data valuable would copy the drive and then let them "recover" the laptop. I hope the vets/armed services people still get treated right. This shouldn't be brushed aside just because they recovered it. They have no way of knowing what happened to that laptop while it wasn't in their possession.
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  • HBombToo
    HBombToo Posts: 5,256
    edited June 2006
    I received my letter from the government already that I have been impacted. The only thing I can do is keep a very close eye on my financials... What a shame is all I can say.

    HBomb
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited June 2006
    WTF was all of that doing on a f#cking LAPTOP? And who was the freaking NUMBNUTS who let it get away.
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited June 2006
    The gov. sent me my letter too.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited July 2006
    I can't find the original thread, to post this......

    I just saw on the news that the Bush Admin is cancelling it's promise to provide credit monitoring because the laptop was retrieved without the data being compromised.

    Pick up the phone guys......I suspect they're gonna catch a LOT of **** for this one......
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited July 2006
    brettw22 wrote:
    I can't find the original thread, to post this......

    I just saw on the news that the Bush Admin is cancelling it's promise to provide credit monitoring because the laptop was retrieved without the data being compromised.

    Pick up the phone guys......I suspect they're gonna catch a LOT of **** for this one......

    wow... how on earth can they prove the data wasn't accessed? that's pure BS.
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