The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs suffered a data breach incident that exposed the COVID-19 vaccination status data for about 500,000 of its employees.
Following an internal investigation, the agency removed a spreadsheet containing personal details including vaccination status.
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/department-of-veterans-affairs
"id": "usd03741222",
"linkid": "department-of-veterans-affairs",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "12/2022",
"severity": "70",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 500000,
'industry': 'Government',
'location': 'United States',
'name': 'U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs',
'type': 'Government Agency'}],
'data_breach': {'file_types_exposed': ['spreadsheet'],
'number_of_records_exposed': 500000,
'type_of_data_compromised': ['COVID-19 vaccination status',
'personal details']},
'description': 'The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs suffered a data '
'breach incident that exposed the COVID-19 vaccination status '
'data for about 500,000 of its employees. Following an '
'internal investigation, the agency removed a spreadsheet '
'containing personal details including vaccination status.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['COVID-19 vaccination status',
'personal details']},
'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Removed the spreadsheet containing '
'personal details']},
'title': 'U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}