VA announces free credit monitoring

The Veterans Administration announced today that the agency will provide one year of free credit monitoring to individuals whose Social Security Number may have been stolen in the data breach incident. However, they have not selected a vendor yet and they are not sure when it will be available (probably August they say).

See the FirstGov web site for more. The official VA press release is here.

Update:  The head of the VA, Jim Nicholson, estimates the cost could be as high as $500 million to deal with this data breach. His job isn’t very fun right now.