{"id":77380,"date":"2018-01-26T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77380"},"modified":"2018-01-26T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T14:17:31","slug":"phillip-hill-va-employee-charged-for-selling-vets-pii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77380","title":{"rendered":"Phillip Hill, VA employee, charged for selling vets’ PII"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our ninjas send us a link to the story<\/a> of Phillip Hill, a Department of Veterans’ Affairs employee who was arrested for selling the personally identifiable information (PII) of veterans to an undercover federal informant.<\/p>\n

Cody Hiland, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, said in the news release that Hill tried to sell the personal data of veterans, their family members and Veterans Affairs employees for $10,000 to an informant working with law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

Hill, a database manager, was fired from his job on Dec. 6, but later said he could still access veterans’ personal information remotely by using a Veterans Affairs computer he’d kept or by stealing a server, according to the release.<\/p>\n

Authorities reportedly arrested Hill outside a data center at a Veterans Affairs office on Dec. 17.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Arkansas Online<\/a>;<\/p>\n

A news release said Hill was arrested outside a secure area where the data he was offering for sale was housed, and officers later found a VA computer in his home.<\/p>\n

Hiland said officers arrested Hill before he could sell the data, and investigators also discovered that he had used the personal information of another person and illegally possessed blank identification cards.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know for a fact that VA employees generally have little regard for your PII, since there’s a VA employee who gave my PII to a podcast yammering crank who in turn announced my PII to his audience. The VA OIG has been painfully slow reacting, but I have Lifelock because I don’t trust the government with my information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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