VA underestimated info on missing hard drive - tenfold
The hard drive stolen from the Birmingham VA Medical Center may have contained personal information on 535,000 people - 10 times the number VA originally estimated, The Birmingham News relates.
The hard drive also may have included data, not all of it sensitive, on about 1.3 million non-VA physicians, both living and dead, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Nicholson said in a statement.
Sen. Richard Shelby Sen. Richard Shelby was "outraged" by the discrepency in the figures. He said he hoped "it was not meant to mislead the public.
