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Personal information for thousands of Colorado vets may have been compromised

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Dissent

KKTV reports:

More than 2,100 Colorado veterans may have had their personal information compromised, the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (ECHCS) said Wednesday.

At risk are the veterans’ names, the last four digits of their Social Security number and their diagnoses. According to the ECHCS, the information may have been compromised when a VA employee emailed unencrypted documents to their personal email account.

Read more on KKTV.


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