Encryption software purchased for PCs and laptops at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has been installed on only 16 percent of computers, according to the department’s inspector general. InformationWeek reports the software was purchased six years ago after a high-profile data breach involving the loss of information on 26 million veterans and costing $20 million to clean up. An anonymous tip that the software was not being implemented prompted the inspector general to investigate. The inspector’s subsequent report states that veterans’ data “remained at risk due to unencrypted computers.” The VA says it plans to complete installing the software by September 2013.
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