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FEMA Data Breach Hits 2.5 Million Disaster Survivors (cnn.com)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) unlawfully shared the private information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors with a federal contractor that was helping them find temporary housing, an inspector general from the Department of Homeland Security said Friday. The data includes "20 unnecessary data fields" such as "electronic funds transfer number," "bank transit number" and addresses. CNN reports: FEMA said it began filtering the data in December 2018 to prevent this information from being shared, but a more permanent fix may not be finalized until June 2020. "Since discovery of this issue, FEMA has taken aggressive measures to correct this error. FEMA is no longer sharing unnecessary data with the contractor and has conducted a detailed review of the contractor's information system," said Lizzie Litzow, press secretary for FEMA, in a statement.
"To date, FEMA has found no indicators to suggest survivor data has been compromised. FEMA has also worked with the contractor to remove the unnecessary data from the system and updated its contract to ensure compliance with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity and information-sharing standards. As an added measure, FEMA instructed contracted staff to complete additional DHS privacy training."
"To date, FEMA has found no indicators to suggest survivor data has been compromised. FEMA has also worked with the contractor to remove the unnecessary data from the system and updated its contract to ensure compliance with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity and information-sharing standards. As an added measure, FEMA instructed contracted staff to complete additional DHS privacy training."
Agreed. The USA does need universal health care but I have no faith in their ability to manage it. Look at how poorly the VA system is run. That is what you'd get.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
And yet every country with an economy that's advanced beyond the mud stage seems to be able to do it. Not perfectly, for sure, but generally OK.
Are they just smarter, or do you have another explanation?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Corruption, pure and simple. When was the last time a high-ranking government official was fired or jailed for their malfeasance?
https://www.stripes.com/some-v...
And what about the IRS scandal? The taxpayers are on the hook for the payouts but Lois Lerner retired with her pension.
https://www.dailysignal.com/20...
Add to this that government employees can leave office and then work for the same businesses they regulated the week before.