In the latest embarrassment in a string of waiting list, scumbag employee and spending scandals, a South Dakota hospital operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs literally trashed the medical records of 1,100 veterans.

Unlike other data breaches, this isn’t the result of some nefarious hacker slumped over a keyboard in his dank basement of cyber crime. This breach was the result of a VA Hot Springs hospital employee physically throwing more than a thousand medical files into a dumpster.

After sitting amongst garbage for two full days, a VA employee dumpster dived to fish the files out just in time for trash day. Once the medical records were recovered, that hospital waited more two months before notifying any veterans that their information was compromised.

Two days is a long time to have the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and phone numbers of 1,100 veterans out in the open for anyone to read, and waiting two months to tell 1,100 people that their information was compromised is negligent.

Those affected by the security breach were notified via letter last Wednesday and promised a free credit report.