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Veterans Dealing Possible ID Theft Threat
WTOC TV - The personal information and identification of 26 million veterans could be out in the open. Now, the US government says it knew about the problem for three weeks before telling the people affected. On May 3, someone stole a Veterans Administration
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Veterans' ID Theft May Be Largest Ever
Associated Press - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Veterans Affairs officials did not fully heed warnings to tighten access to personal data for the millions of U.S. veterans, investigators said Tuesday, a misstep that could lead to one of the nation's largest cases of identity
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Precautions for veterans in wake of data theft
Baltimore Sun - An imagination can run wild with what a thief can do with the Social Security numbers of more than 26 million veterans, but privacy experts and regulators are advising people not to panic. The recent theft of veterans' information from the Maryland
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VA Chief Vows Accountability for ID Theft
Salon - May 25,2006 | WASHINGTON -- Summoning the Veterans Affairs chief to Capitol Hill, lawmakers are demanding to know why the department waited nearly three weeks to disclose the theft of personal data from 26.5 million veterans. "Why did they wait so
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Excerpts of recent editorials from Indiana
Times - As schools are pressured to raise their students' test scores, state lawmakers require them to deal with more issues tangentially related to academics. Concerned about students picking on each other? Require schools to adopt measures to prevent
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N.J. probe bolstered ID-theft measures
Bergen Record - When Hackensack detectives stormed into the nondescript, two-bedroom apartment of a burglary suspect last year, they thought they were investigating a simple case of check fraud. But when they examined the 10 computers from the sparsely furnished
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