US James A. Haley VA Medical Center 2014 Physical Action (Q9305)
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A data breach risk event
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US James A. Haley VA Medical Center 2014 Physical Action
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A data breach risk event
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January 2014
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The documents with the Social Security numbers of veterans treated at the James A. Haley VA Medical Center were supposed to be shredded by a company whose website warns, Dont become a victim of identity theft. But the firm, federal prosecutors say, employed a 24-year-old with a criminal history who kept those records out of the shredder, instead selling them to individuals who used the documents to file fraudulent tax returns. Federal marshals on Wednesday arrested Willie Streater of E Hamilton Avenue in Tampa on eight charges accusing him of stealing the Social Security numbers of at least 34 veterans treated at Haley in 2011 and 2012. Prosecutors say $1.1 million was stolen. It is the second case filed since 2013 charging someone with stealing identifying information of veterans treated (English)
