Military.com reports that the Veteran's Administration accidently released information on 2200 living veterans to Ancestry.com in 2011. According to the story, the VA was only supposed to release information on deceased veterans -- however, information on living veterans was also accidently released. Veterans who had their information released will be notified by the VA and provided certain services such as credit monitoring.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing -- hopefully this will not happen again as it does not help either the requester community (agencies will now tend to shy away from making releases where possible) or those who had their material released.
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