{"id":13302,"date":"2009-08-06T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13302"},"modified":"2009-08-06T06:51:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:51:56","slug":"laptop-theft-affects-vets-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13302","title":{"rendered":"Laptop theft affects vets &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=64040\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> reports another government laptop has been stolen with the personal data of some veterans again;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About 131,000 former and current Army National Guard members may have had their personal information compromised when a contractor\u2019s laptop was stolen, Guard officials announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The laptop, taken July 27 during a conference in Atlanta, included data on soldiers enrolled in the Army National Guard Bonus and Incentives Program. Files containing soldiers\u2019 names, social security numbers, payment dates and bonus amounts were included on the laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Noller, a spokesman for the National Guard Bureau, said officials don\u2019t have any indication yet that the information has been used to open new credit cards or go after soldiers\u2019 bank accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, as long as our social security numbers are so important and as long as the government lets people walk around with our personal data in laptops, this stuff is going to happen. It just seems to me that the government would stop letting their employees keep our personal files on the local drives in their laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I have a subscription to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifelock.com\/\">LifeLock<\/a> because it&#8217;s apparently inevitable that someone is going to get a hold of my ID some day. When my wife tried to make me a cosigner on the loan for her new car, LifeLock called me before the bank did. <\/p>\n<p>Who ever succeeds at stealing my identity, I hope they have better luck with it than I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars and Stripes reports another government laptop has been stolen with the personal data of some veterans again; About 131,000 former and current Army National Guard members may have had their personal information compromised when a contractor\u2019s laptop was stolen, Guard officials announced Tuesday. The laptop, taken July 27 during a conference in Atlanta, included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-3sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}