One Year Later: Lawmakers Dissatisfied with VA’s Response to eBenefits Breach

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House lawmakers, once again, are pressing the Veterans Affairs Department for
more answers about how they are addressing their cybersecurity troubles.

Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) sent a href=”https://www.federalnewsradio.com/pdfs/2014-12-15-Letter-to-VA-Sec-
McDonald-on-ebenefits.pdf” target=”_blank”>letter to Secretary Bob
McDonald Dec. 15 asking for more details about the href=”https://www.federalnewsradio.com/1177/3550315/House-Veterans-Committee-
adds-latest-VA-cyber-breach-to-ongoing-investigations”
target=”_blank”>eBenefits website cyber breach that happened in January.
VA reported the breach exposed the data of more than 5,000 veterans.

Meanwhile, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) continues to wait to hear from VA about
a href=”https://www.federalnewsradio.com/pdfs/CMC_letter_to_SecVA_re_OIT_Reports.
pdf”
target=”_blank”>letter from Nov. 21. In that correspondence, Coffman asks
VA for copies of reports from Deloitte over the last two years relating to
cybersecurity, IT and information management issues. Coffman also is asking
about the Mandiant report VA commissioned and mentioned during a November
hearing.

VA Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren said at the href=”https://www.federalnewsradio.com/1177/3745226/VA-to-spend-60-million-
more-on-cyber-after-auditors-continued-concerns” target=”_blank”>hearing
that hired Mandiant to look at the agency’s domain controllers. He said their
cyber experts initially reported the systems are clean from malicious
software.

A committee staff member said members still are waiting for VA to deliver the
final Mandiant report, which Warren said would be finalized in December.

Both letters are part of an

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