Comments on: VA laptop breach victims to get free ID monitoring

ID risk management company offers to keep an eye on veterans' personal data exposed in a recent laptop theft.

[Domestech]

VA laptop breach

If Bush can't get the government to get the information he wants then use the "I'll protect you" theme to get my trust.....NOT !!!!!
I'm very sad to say I do not trust the Republican or the Passive Democrats with any of my Information. The past six years they have stipped me of every ounce of security I had. I'll fight for it if I have to!

[kakodes]

Your Rant

paranoia: n.
* A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason.
* Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

[marileev]

About Time

This is the least they can do after such an egregious lack of security risk measures to our U.S. Veterans information http://www.iwantmyess.com/?p=86

Especially since earlier this week it was reported this week that another 38,000 Vets IDs were breached after a machine disappeared from Unisys, a subcontractor http://news.com.com/Another+PC+with+veterans+data+missing/2100-7348_3-6103026.html?tag=cd.lede

[ml_ess]

But will they ever make up their minds?

The Dept. of Veterans Affairs has once before announced that they will offer credit monitoring to these vets. Then followed an announcement that such security measure isn't "necessary"... now they're saying they'll offer it again?
"About time" is right, and hopefully they've made up their mind for the last time.

[wbenton]

Yet another security risk

Having such a database in the first place... followed by publicizing it openly in the news makes it yet another fair game for hackers with intent on stealing the patterns which this group has come up with.

And as such information is held so secretly, there's no telling who they might sell such information to such as advertisers, etc. to pattern their SPAM to those users.

Once such data has been accessed (and it will only be a period of time before it is breached), if the hackers continue to use that data following the patterns already know... it will be virtually impossible to trace them using that method any more.

Walt