FEMA contractor at center of privacy violation provides services to many other agencies

Late last-year, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was found to have exposed 2.3 million disaster survivors to identity theft and fraud by unnecessarily sending sensitive data to a government contractor administering FEMA’s emergency lodging program. The contractor, who failed to flag for FEMA the data oversharing, was found by the agency to have 11 cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its data and network facilities, seven of which won’t be remediated until 2020.

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