DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online

The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role...

veterans.gc.ca Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3066769

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable

Indictments against Iranian hackers, a Veterans Affairs data breach, and more of the week's top security news...

Data Breaches Expose Vets, COVID-19 Patients

A pair of healthcare-related data breaches at high-profile government agencies has impacted tens of thousands of people. First, a cyberattack at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VA has impacted about 46,000 veterans, exposing their financial information. And another incident, at the U.K.’s...

Global Crime Ring Bilks U.S. Military Members, Vets Out of Millions

Operators of a widespread identity-theft and fraud scheme have bilked thousands of U.S. servicemembers and veterans out of millions of dollars in stolen funds and Veterans Affairs VA benefits payments. Fredrick Brown pled guilty this week, revealing that in his role as a civilian medical records...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

Veterans Affairs breaches

The Department of Veterans Affairs was hit on two separate occasions by breaches in 2006. 26.5 million Veterans and their families had their names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth lifted after a laptop was swiped from an employee’s home in May. The laptop was retrieved in August and tw...

VA Investigating Security Breach of Veterans' Medical Data

The Veteran Affairs Department’s inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant’s alleged downloading of veterans’ clinical data at its Atlanta medical center. The assistant allegedly recorded two sets of patient data on to a personal laptop for research...