The Veterans Affairs hospital in Fayetteville says documents containing the personal information of nearly 1,100 veterans were found in a recycling bin two months ago . The Fayetteville VA Medical Center announced Friday its notifying the 1,093 affected veterans whose consultation reports from the optical shop were incorrectly placed in a recycle bin over a three - month period . The documents found April 17 contained patients names , Social Security numbers , dates of birth , addresses and prescriptions . Officials say there s no indication the information has been misused . But the hospital is notifying veterans who visited the optical shop between Jan. 11 and April 16 and offering them free credit monitoring services . The hospital says the staff member who had been collecting the documents was retrained on what items should be shredded . ;