The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has issued the following statement. “The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) takes seriously our obligation to properly safeguard personal information. Wednesday evening, during a process to improve software supporting the joint VA and Department of Defense benefits web portal e-Benefits, VA discovered a software defect. During that limited timeframe, some Veterans and Service members who had registered and logged into e-Benefits were able to see a combination of their own information as well as data from other e-Benefits users. VA took immediate action upon discovering the software defect and shut the e-Benefits system down in order to limit any problems. VA is conducting a full review to be certain the underlying technological issues have been resolved before the system is returned to operation. VA’s independent Data Breach Core Team (DBCT) is reviewing this issue and believes a relatively limited number of Veterans have been affected. Once the DBCT determines the number of users impacted, their identities and other pertinent facts, VA will take the appropriate response, which may include free credit monitoring for the affected individuals, consistent with VA’s standard practice.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:44:01 +0000
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