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How Many Have Gotten A Letter From Department Of Veterans Affairs?
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Shyne-I
Hi everyone,
I was just wondering has anyone else received a letter from the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Securiy at the Deparment of Veterans Affairs(VA)? All the letter states is that my personally identifiable information was at risk of being viewed or possibly viewed by other Veterans, Servicemen or dependents. It states that on January 15,2014, during a process to improve software supporting the joint VA and DOD benefits protal(Ebenefits), VA discovered a software defect. On that day, 1,643 Veterans, Servicemen and dependents that registered and logged into eBenefits were able to see a combination of their own information as well as data from other eBenefits users.... Yada Yada Yada!!
It does not tell me how much of my information was accessed or even if it was accessed. This is the most non-descript bull.... I have ever read!! They don't admit any fault, wrongdoing, or regret. I just want to know who had access to my information and what did they see!!
They are just notifying me so that I may choose to take appropriate steps, (including those discussed below), to protet yourself against identity theft. Then they offer Free Credit Monitoring and tell me I can get my Free Annual Credit Report. Suggest Fraud Alert....etc...
Shyne-I
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john999
Get the free credit monitoring if you are worried. The VA will continue to have data breaches until there is no more data. They are idiots just like Target and USPS and lots of other big organizati
Notorious Kelly
Back in the day, important data was routed over leased lines that were completely secure. It's much less expensive to route traffic over the internet; the trade-off is it's also very vulnerable to
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