The Department of Veterans Affairs released a new cybersecurity strategy ahead of Veteran’s Day as a way to better protect the personal information and data of US veterans as well as stop the potential corruption of critical data.
The VA said cybercriminals and others have long sought access to veterans’ data for a variety of scams and exploitation, prompting the department to make changes to how it protects the data of veterans.
In 2006, the organization was forced to deal with a massive data breach affecting the sensitive information of 26.5 million veterans as well as their spouses and family members.
Just last month, the Justice Department sentenced a former medical records technician for the US Army after he was caught accessing personal information from US veterans and using the data to steal millions from benefits sites.
As a civilian medical records technician and administrator with the US Army at the 65th Medical Brigade, Yongsan Garrison in South Korea, 40-year-old Fredrick Brown admitted to stealing names, Social Security numbers, military ID numbers, dates of birth and…
