FEMA shared California wildfire victims’ personal data with an outside vendor
Millions of disaster victims — including thousands of those hit by California wildfires — had personally identifiable information put in jeopardy when they applied for housing relief with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, authorities said Friday.
The information included applicants’ full names, last four digits of their Social Security numbers, home addresses, and bank account and routing numbers. Some of the jeopardized information was needed in an earlier version of the Transitional Sheltering Assistance program to directly place funds into the bank accounts of displaced disaster victims.
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