Amazing as it may seem, the Department of Veteran Affairs has done it again.  This time they are reporting that information on more than half a million people is missing and may have been stolen.  Way down from the 26.5 million records that were at issue back in May of 2006 when the VA reported a lost laptop containing that information.  The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse provides a Chronology of Data Breaches that also shows other reports from the VA, and tallies the total of reported data disclosures by all organizations as exceeding 100,000,000.  Time for us all to check out the do's and don'ts of avoiding identity theft at the FTC's website.