“For roughly nine months this year, the Veterans Affairs Department stopped posting online quarterly reports that detail information security breaches affecting veterans.”
“The department continued to share the quarterly reports with Congress during this period, as it is required to do under the 2006 Veterans Benefits, Healthcare, and Information Technology Act, according to a spokeswoman for the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.”
“The department failed, however, to post the reports online as had been common practice going back to 2010…”
“A VA spokesman did not respond to three separate queries about whether VA had intentionally stopped posting the reports or if the extreme delay in posting the reports was merely an oversight.”
“The reports are essentially tallies of incidents in which a VA hospital or other VA institution had to send veterans a notification that their personal data might have been breached or sent an offer of credit protection…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Stopped Publishing Breach Reports About Vets’ Data for Nine Months – By Joseph Marks, August 24, 2018. Nextgox.
