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Government Says Stolen VA Laptop Recovered

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Posted by Steve 2006-06-29 10:57|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Still too early (IMHO) to turn out the lights on this story; maybe the data analyst got the OK to take the computer home, but that still doesn't excuse the miserable higher-ups who tried to cover up the robbery, or their half-witted attempts to 'splain away what happened and simultaneously dump on poor ol' Mr. Data Analyst.' Those guys need to go!
How many other Vets out there (besides me) now get to worry about their credit, even tho' the FBI says that all is well?

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-06-29 14:26|| 2006-06-29 14:26|| Front Page Top

#2 USN,ret, I'm not sure, but I think you can have a freeze put on your credit by contacting the three credit reporting agencies, citing risk that your information has been stolen. At any rate, you are entitled to request a free copy of your credit history once every twelve months from each of the agencies, and to correct mistakes therein. It isn't a difficult process -- I fixed a bunch of minor things a year ago (they'd intermixed Mr. Wife's father's info with his own), and it's all still clean as of last week. ;-) Good luck!

Experian
TransUnion
Equifax

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-29 14:58|| 2006-06-29 14:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm one of the 26 million. Has anyone contacted the 3 credit reporting agencies to freeze their accounts because of this incident?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-06-29 18:21|| 2006-06-29 18:21|| Front Page Top

#4 There is a Last Date Accessed field in most file systems. I don't know what O/S is on the laptop, but I'll wager that checking that file attribute and finding it has not been accessed since stolen should make folks feel a lot more comfortable.

If the FBI says it hasn't, it works for me.

Posted by Crolump Glereper5426 2006-06-29 18:27|| 2006-06-29 18:27|| Front Page Top

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