From: Federal Times
Last month, the Veterans Affairs Department notified nearly 100 veterans that their personal information had been mishandled or misused electronically.
In a monthly data breach report to Congress, VA reported an additional 111 veterans were notified after their information was incorrectly mailed to the wrong person.
While these slipups represent a fraction of the massive volume of mailings and data handling that VA conducts, these errors are representative of a larger issue across all levels of government.
According to this year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, miscellaneous errors, which include misdelivery and publishing errors, were more prevalent in the public sector than most other industries. The frequency of these types of errors within the public sector surpassed the number of incidents classified as insider misuse or theft and loss.
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