FEMA shared 2.3 million disaster survivors' personal information with contractor
Source: cnn
Updated 8:11 PM ET, Fri March 22, 2019
(CNN)Millions of hurricane and wildfire survivors are learning that they're at "increased risk of identity theft and fraud" because the Federal Emergency Management Agency shared their banking and other private information.
The Department of Homeland Security inspector general said Friday that FEMA had unlawfully disclosed the private data of 2.3 million survivors with a federal contractor that was helping them find temporary housing.
The 2.3 million people include survivors of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the 2017 California wildfires.
The data includes "20 unnecessary data fields" such as electronic funds transfer number, bank transit number, and address. The data was part of a stream of information the agency feeds to the housing contractor, whose name was redacted from the public version of the inspector general's report.
FEMA said it began filtering the data in December 2018 to prevent the information from being shared, but a more permanent fix may not be finalized until June 2020........................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/22/politics/fema-shared-information/index.html
Seems like an awfully long time to get a permanent fix on his problem!!
BumRushDaShow
(128,425 posts)It's probably a huge database that interacts with other systems (either other federal ones and/or state systems) and might run regular daily/monthly/quarterly/yearly "jobs" for reports, etc., and also could run ad hoc reports. To fix, the system will require new coding and then testing (with bug fixes) and then new documentation and finally user training before a final release. They may have already had plans for an upgraded release for 2020 anyway so they would roll the new requirements into that.
atreides1
(16,066 posts)Is this the real reason that former FEMA boss, Brock Long wanted to spend more time with his family?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/us/politics/brock-long-fema.html
WASHINGTON Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who was praised for his agencys response to Hurricane Harvey but sharply criticized for its handling of Hurricane Marias devastation of Puerto Rico, announced on Wednesday that he would resign.
UpInArms
(51,279 posts)These people are screwing up every agency on purpose.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)all these Witch Hunts started against him and his administration And here you go, starting another.
UpInArms
(51,279 posts)Witches in that house