US Department of Veterans Affairs 2014 Technical Error (Q9090)
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A data breach risk event
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US Department of Veterans Affairs 2014 Technical Error
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A data breach risk event
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January 2014
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is responding Saturday night to a story that was first reported about a privacy breach on the VAs e-benefits website by the I-Team at ABC7s sister station WTVD in Raleigh, North Carolina. Its raised concerns by dozens of vets around the country, including one vet in Chicago. it gave me a different persons name, each and every time i came back. Navy veteran Sylvester Woodland says at first he didnt understand, then couldnt believe what he was seeing Friday night. "It gave me a different persons name, each and every time I came back," he said. "At first I thought it was just a glitch, but the more I thought about it, I said, Wait a minute, this is more than a glitch, this is a breach," Woodland was on the Veterans Affairs e-benefits website trying to t (English)
