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Credit monitoring for veterans not enough?
Posted on Jun 22, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Grant Gross of ComputerWorld has this story.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) offer of free credit monitoring to the 26.5 million military veterans affected by a recent data theft is not enough to fix the problem, the chairman of a congressional committee said today.
The VA announced yesterday it would offer a year of free credit counseling to the potential victims of identity theft after a laptop and external hard drive containing a database with personal information on 26.5 million veterans and their spouses were stolen from a VA analyst's home in early May. But Representative Steve Buyer, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, said the VA offer was only one step the agency needs to take to protect the identities of veterans.
He’s right. There’s ways your identity could be stolen that would not show up at the credit reporting agencies. And what about credit freezes for the veterans? No one is talking about that. The cost would be enormous and take a lot of time, since none of the CRA’s are setup to offer that nationwide.
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft
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