Cyber Breach Affecting Veterans
Any of you receiving benefits or who have applied for benefits need to check to see if your information was compromised. This is the message I received from the Wounded Warrior Program.
On Friday, 17 January 2014, there was a breach of the eBenefits website that is run by the Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The VA is conducting an independent investigation. To learn whether your eBenefits information may have been compromised, you can call the VA directly at 1.800.827.1000. And, as always, you can reach out to your Benefits Service team at WWP. |
there's a lot of it about, and not in the 'usual suspect' countries or companies either, mostly in sensible places like major physical and online retailers, didn't Microsoft get hacked twice in a week not long ago?
if even tech-aware outfits can get hacked then a Govt department is childs play, the kind of hack you knock out in your lunch break with a sandwich in one hand. |
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Fortunately it looks like this is the same as those credit card breaches, where private information is stolen, rather than benefits been messed with. |
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This looks like the DOD put yet another system in without testing it fully and let it loose on the public. If the government would follow their own rules, this should not be an issue. Since this is a DOD system, they need to follow the DOD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program, or DIACAP for short. They did not, as part of DIACAP is a risk management process and vulnerability assessment.
In other words, nothing new. Film at 11. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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