The federal government will no longer offer free credit monitoring for the nearly 26.5 million veterans whose sensitive information was stolen since the data had been recovered, according to wire service reports.
The announcement came one week after the FBI determined that the information stored on a Veterans Affairs employee’s laptop and external drive had not been accessed. Still, veterans groups protested.
“We are outraged that the administration would renege on its offer of one free year of credit monitoring,” said Bob Wallace, executive director of Veterans of Foreign Wars. “There is no 100% assurance that the laptop was not compromised.
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