http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220398/Update_Data_breach_affects_4.9M_active_retired_military_personnel By Jaikumar Vijayan Computerworld September 29, 2011 Sensitive data including Social Security Numbers, names, addresses, phone numbers and personal health data belonging to about 4.9 million active and retired U.S. military personnel may have been compromised after backup tapes containing the data went missing recently. The information on the tapes was from an electronic healthcare application used to capture patient data. It does not include bank, credit card or other financial data, according to a statement released by TRICARE, a healthcare system for active and retired military personnel and their families. The breach affects all those who received care at the military's San Antonio area military treatment facilities between 1992 and Sept. 7 of this year. Those affected include individuals who had filled pharmacy prescriptions or had laboratory tests done at any of the facilities, TRICARE said. As is often typical with such incidents, the information on the backup tapes does not appear to have been encrypted. But in its statement, TRICARE maintained that the risk of the data being misused was low "since retrieving the data on the tapes would require knowledge of and access to specific hardware and software and knowledge of the system and data structure." [...] _____________________________________________________________ FINAL CALL to register #HITB2011KUL - Asia's premier deep-knowledge network security event now in it's 9th year! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/Received on Mon Oct 03 2011 - 01:47:04 PDT
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