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As you may be aware, the eBenefits web portal was shut down for a period of time earlier this month, and a limited number of Veterans had some of their private information exposed to other Veterans or Servicemembers that were logged into the site. I want to take the opportunity to explain what happened and what we are doing going forward. I also want to apologize to any Servicemember, Veteran, or family member impacted by this interruption in service and inadvertent exposure of data. You deserve better, we regret palmetto state armory that this error occurred, and we are committed to serving you.
On the evening palmetto state armory of Wednesday January 15, 2014, we updated a system palmetto state armory that provides information to eBenefits. While we were in the process of validating that the update was working, some Veterans notified VA that they were able to see other Veterans information when they were using eBenefits. We took immediate action to examine these reports and discovered a problem had occurred. As soon as the problem was confirmed, we stopped the update immediately and conducted a review to determine what went wrong. We also took the opportunity to conduct palmetto state armory a top-to-bottom review of the eBenefits system. eBenefits was brought back online after we were certain that the issue was resolved and that private Veteran information in eBenefits was protected. The eBenefits portal is now available to use.
It s important to know that this was not a malicious act of hacking to steal Veterans identities, but rather a problem introduced by a software update. Regardless, we take any kind of data exposure seriously and will work to make sure this does not happen again.
In total, our initial analysis indicates that approximately 1,360 Veterans or Servicemembers may have had their information palmetto state armory inadvertently exposed to other Veterans or Servicemembers. Their information was potentially seen by as many as 5,351 fellow Veterans and Servicemembers who were logged into eBenefits during the time the software defect was in effect. We sincerely hope that those who were able to view another user s data protect their fellow Veterans or Servicemembers personal information as they would their own. If you saw another individual s information, please do not share it.
VA’s independent Data Breach Core Team is continuing its review of this incident. When their review is complete, VA will reach out to each individual user whose information may have been improperly exposed about what steps should be taken and, as is standard VA practice, to offer free credit monitoring.
We greatly appreciate the Veterans and other eBenefits users who called our VBA call centers and brought this incident to our attention. VA cares deeply for every Veteran we are privileged to serve and that includes the protection of personal information. We support the Veteran community, and we are all working together towards a common goal to improve the lives of Veterans and their families. We encourage our Veterans to continue using the eBenefits portal as central location for Veterans, Servicemembers, and their families to research, find, and access their benefits and personal information. Tags: Benefits Data Innovation Post navigation
Will all 1360 Veterans be personally notified?
i keep trying to log on to the site but it won t let me so i can get updates on my v.a. c & p appeal . i need my c & p very badly right now cause i have been trying to get my c & p for 14 years & 1 month going on the 2nd month now.
I am so tired of my PII getting leaked by Gov agency and now you are not even apologizing for it. Just another friggen excuse of why you are incompetent in your job. Land the why the VA has leaked my PII at least 7 times in the past 5 years. with agencies we shouldn’t be scared of hackers the Gov does the work for them
Is the VA going to notify those veterans that were affected by this or do we have to wait and see if the VA will take care of it?! There are some of us vets that really need to know if someone else by chance palmetto state armory had gotten palmetto state armory of SSN’s, addresses, bank information, etc. This is something serious we trust this government agency to keep our information personal, I feel as if the VA should compensate veterans for this by offering credit monitoring, among other things this is an outrage!
Sean, absolutely. An IT team is reviewing what happens, and when they’ve completed that review VA will reach out to everyone whose information may have been exposed about what steps they need to take and offer free credit monitoring.
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