Fema Leaks Personal records of 2.3 million disaster survivors2.3 million Us people who have survived recent disasters have had their sensitive data leaked by Fema. It comes at dire times for them as the last thing they should be thinking about is getting new bank account credentials. Fema claims they are deleting data that has inadvertently been exchanged with their contractor at the moment and that this will not happen again. The United States Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) has released a “major privacy incident” through a relevant statement. The disaster relief agency has confirmed that disaster survivors are leaking confidential and personally identifiable information through their Transitional Sheltering Assistance program. The explanation for the leak is a human error, as the sensitive data was mistakenly given to a contractor during a data transfer process. The number of Us people affected is 2.3 million and their current state is the worst possible for coping with an incident like this. The specific information that was leaked includes their bank transit numbers representing the transfer number of the electronic fund and another 17 types of data that should only have remained in Fema’s servers. Since most of the people affected are survivors of the 2017 California wildfires as well as recent hurricane disasters, they have not yet recovered and this data leak acts as a totally unexpected new problem for them. Fema’s statement insists that there are no signs that indicate that the leaked data has been compromised and that they work feverishly to delete the data from the servers of the contractor. In addition, they declared their decision to take their own and the staff of their contractor to go through a mandatory safety and privacy training that effectively prevents similar incidents from happening again in the future. If you are one of the survivors who have registered for support contact Fema on the Fema website and ask for clarification on the steps you will take from now on. Sadly the company has not set up or provided any information or dedicated telephone lines for this cyber-disaster response in their announcement.