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FEMA leak

2019-03-22 22:32:52.826082+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Office of the Inspector General OIG-19-32: Management Alert – FEMA Did Not Safeguard Disaster Survivors’ Sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (REDACTED)

During our ongoing audit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Transitional Sheltering Assistance (TSA) program, we determined that FEMA violated the Privacy Act of 19741 and Department of Homeland Security policy2 by releasing to ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ the PII and SPII of 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria and the California wildfires in 2017.3 FEMA should only provide ⬛⬛ with limited information needed to verify disaster survivors’ eligibility for the TSA program. The privacy incident occurred because FEMA did not take steps to ensure it provided only required data elements to ⬛⬛ Without corrective action, the disaster survivors involved in the privacy incident are at increased risk of identity theft and fraud.

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