Return to Article: Report: VA treated data breach with 'indifference'
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Everyone really needs to read the IG report that is linked in the article. First it was not an assigned project but a fascination project the analyst initiated on his own, then the fighting between the political appointee and his civil service boss that the political appointee did not like.
There is enough in the report that the secretary needs to clean house, top to bottom.
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Such nonsense and scapegoating of what I consider an eagle employee. We should only have more federal employees who take work home and work on self-initiated projects. Let's take the guy behind the shed and beat the living tar out of him so every VA and federal employee becomes even more fearful of ever doing something to improve government processes and procedures!
And has anyone even asked the question of what someone would do with a database of 26 million Social security numbers? Any one of those numbers is easily obtained on the Internet. I'm more concerned with the banks losing my credit card number.
HR Specialist
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So, according to the VA Inspector General, it turns out the VA employee did not have permission to have 26 million SSNs at his home, after all. "The IG found that while the data analyst was authorized to access and use the database, he did not have permission to take the data home..."
It's nice to see the truth finally came to the light of day here, after all the false media reports on this employee and his supposed "permission" to violate the privacy of veterans.
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