{"id":32179,"date":"2012-09-28T14:51:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32179"},"modified":"2012-09-30T08:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T12:09:20","slug":"heroes-ppi-released-by-contractor-on-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32179","title":{"rendered":"Heroes’ PII released by contractor on internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone who was interviewing Sal Giunta this afternoon called and told me about this thing in the Army Times<\/a> today about the personally identifiable information (PII) for our highest decorated veterans was temporarily posted on the internet by a contractor;<\/p>\n

The exposed database contains 31 Social Security numbers for six MoH recipients \u2014 including former Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta and Sgt. First Class Leroy Petry and four posthumous recipients \u2014 and 25 Distinguished Service Cross recipients since Sept. 11, 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Erik Muendel, chief executive officer of Brightline, told Army Times he was unaware of the breach and did not know how the file wound up online, but he was investigating what was posted and how it got there.<\/p>\n

He said Brightline makes use of such data as part of a contract with the Army Chief of Public Affairs office to build a \u201cGallery of Heroes\u201d exhibit at the Association of the United States Army conventions.<\/p>\n

He said his firm is meant to receive only unclassified information, and he was surprised the firm was provided with sensitive information.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m assuming that that file was a derivative of information that was provided to us, but I do not know,\u201d Muendel said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it wasn’t Brightline’s fault that they were careless with information. I’ll tell you guys like I passed on to Sal, get Lifelock. It costs $100\/year, but it’s like life insurance – you don’t need it until it’s too late. The Deparment of Veterans’ Affairs and the Defense Department toss around your PII like so much confetti.<\/p>\n

My wife went to buy a car and put me down as the co-signer and Lifelock called me while she was still at the dealer so I know it works.<\/p>\n

Usually, the DVA and DoD don’t even tell you about these breaches of your PII until months after it happens, so be prepared beforehand. These guys are just lucky that it was Doug Sterner who discovered the breach this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone who was interviewing Sal Giunta this afternoon called and told me about this thing in … Heroes’ PII released by contractor on internet<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}