BREAKING: More management shakeups at VA
January 31, 2014 · 4:14 pm Recent departures of senior executives from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Acquisition Operations have left four of the top positions at the organization vacant. FedScoop has confirmed reports from sources familiar with VA’s OAO that Executive Director Iris B. Cooper and associate executive director for OAO’s Technology Acquisition Center, Wendy McCutcheon, recently left the agency.Cooper has taken the post of senior procurement executive at the Treasury Department. McCutcheon, sources said, retired abruptly.
Software glitch affected more than 5,000 veterans, VA says
January 21, 2014 · 2:26 pm The Department of Veterans Affairs today said initial estimates show as many as 5,351 veterans may have been impacted by a software glitch Jan. 15 that exposed private information and allowed personal data belonging to veterans to be altered. “VA’s independent Data Breach Core Team is reviewing the issue and believes a relatively limited number of veterans have been affected,” the agency said in response to an exclusive report by FedScoop that detailed the extent of the problems experienced by users of the joint VA-Defense Department eBenefits portal.
VA software glitch allowed data to be altered, exposed tens of thousands of veterans
January 20, 2014 · 6:00 am But new video footage obtained by FedScoop from Eric Grzelak, a disabled veteran who has tried unsuccessfully to alert VA to the problems, shows the glitch exposed the private records of multiple veterans for every person who was logged in. In addition, Grzelak’s video evidence shows it was possible to alter the records, placing at risk the private information of potentially tens of thousands or more veterans. “I could see someone’s name, date of birth, Social Security number, what disabilities they had [and] how much they got paid,” Grzelak told FedScoop. “Everything you would look at would pull up someone else’s info. It would change every time you refreshed the page.”
