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VA 'silent' after eBenefits account hacked; Veterans encouraged to check their accounts
KOAA ^ | June 28, 2018 | Eric Cross

Posted on 06/30/2018 6:57:15 PM PDT by holymoly

If you receive monthly benefits payments from the VA, you may want to double check your online account.

Just a few days before Aubry and David Stevenson planned to leave town for a wedding someone had logged into David's eBenefits account and changed his direct deposit.

"They shouldn't be able to change my contact information and my direct deposit," David said. "You should have to do that in person. You should definitely have to do that in person."

Someone obtained David's user login and with minimal safeguards in place, the hacker was able to re-route David's disability check to a different account.

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BTW Sorry about the excerpt. I'm on android, copy-paste is a PITA.

1 posted on 06/30/2018 6:57:15 PM PDT by holymoly
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To: holymoly

Is’t it enough that our active military have to be the point of the spear in combat, heads on a swivel, always watching their six? And then they come home and they STILL have to watch their six, just in case the VA is gonna mess and/or ignore them again??


2 posted on 06/30/2018 7:26:58 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: blu

Interesting comment of yours. I think it’s called “hyper vigilance”. Once you’ve been in an intense fight or flight situation you could likely be hyper vigilant for the rest of your life. And when you do get home, you do watch your six constantly. Some call that paranoia.

PTSD is not just about nightmares.


3 posted on 06/30/2018 7:45:18 PM PDT by redfreedom (Gun control has proven success! (Such as in Hitler's Germany & Stalin's Russia))
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To: redfreedom

Some call it realism.


4 posted on 06/30/2018 7:49:10 PM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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