House Committee on Veterans Affairs (VA) Chairman Jeff Miller (R-FL) and Ranking Member Michael Michaud (D-ME) sent a letter last week to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki demanding answers to a number of questions raised during a recent committee meeting regarding hacking by foreign nationals of the VA computer network in 2010. Will the VA be offering credit protection services to every veteran and dependent in its database? Why are there discrepancies in how the breach is being described at differing times? Why was Congress apparently not notified of these security compromises? “The fact is that we don't know what they took but I believe (the VA) had a responsibility to the men and women who served this country to notify them at the point that they knew they were hacked,” Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) told Federal News Radio.
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