The data was stolen from the home of 26.5 million U.S. veterans on May 3. The data breach is the second largest in the history of the country’s history of data theft. The public was not notified of the breach until May 22. The theft is the largest in history of theft of personal data by a single person, according to the Associated Press. The loss of the data is estimated to have cost taxpayers millions of millions of pounds of insurance money in the past five years.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2119996/va-official-resigns-due-to-data-theft.html