Post AlhkiIFdVN6FaQ3npQ by greenpepper22@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AlhkiHMgnf9Cq0LvBQ by briankrebs@infosec.exchange
       2024-09-05T19:54:28Z
       
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       Last month, I heard from a U.S. veteran who had agreed to take a series of surveys from the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs regarding their attitudes about sharing health data. Participants were promised $50 in gift cards from the VA if they completed the surveys.The reader was reaching out because he'd indeed received 5 $10 CVS gift cards in the mail via the VA, but all of them had zero balances when he checked them online.The VA sent out a message to participating vets, saying that "due to a hacking issue with the CVS system, there is a chance the cards you receive may be less than $50 total value."Another message from the VA's Timothy Hogan referenced "a hacking issue within the CVS system that may have affected the gift cards we sent in appreciation for completing a Veteran Affairs Patient Survey on how Veterans share their health data."CVS has not responded to many requests for comment or clarification over the past two weeks. Like I don't exist.Welp, I wonder how this experience has affected veteran attitudes about sharing data?
       
 (DIR) Post #AlhkiIFdVN6FaQ3npQ by greenpepper22@mastodon.social
       2024-09-05T20:26:10Z
       
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       @briankrebs why couldn’t they just directly give folks cash? Like it’s the government, you’d think they’d be able to just directly give veterans money
       
 (DIR) Post #AlhkiJ3yUDMk6Xc0I4 by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-09-05T20:47:00Z
       
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       @greenpepper22 @briankrebs Gift cards are used in schemes like this to constrain what you can do with the money, and reward favoured vendors. It should be against the law.