Walter Reed Army Medical Center Suffers Data Breach

The following article is proof that even the Government organizations have Identity Theft problems.

Walter Reed suffers peer-to-peer data breach
Sue Marquette Poremba

Unauthorized file-sharing is to blame for a data breach at Walter Reed Army Medical Center that exposed the personal information of nearly 1,000 patients.

Walter Reed officials said in a statement that they were notified of the possible breach on May 21 by an outside company. Preliminary results of an ongoing investigation have identified a computer from which the data was apparently compromised. Data security personnel from Walter Reed, located in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Army continue to investigate the source and causes for the information compromise.

Victims, who are military health system beneficiaries, are being notified and offered credit monitoring services, the statement said.

“The disclosure of this information raises the possibility that individuals named in the file could become victims of identity theft,” the release said. (emphasis added)

(Full Text at www.scmagazineus.com)

Since the beginning of 2008 and as of June 3,there have been 298 data breaches in businesses in the United States with 16,683,718 records exposed. The largest number of records, over 7 million, have been taken from Banking, Credit and Financial companies. However, the greatest number of breaches have been in Business with 36% of all breaches.

Obviously, the financial industry offers more records per security breach.
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