WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. John Fetterman issued the following press release:
Yesterday, U.S. Senators John Fetterman (D-PA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Representatives Dan Goldman (D-NY-10) and Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) introduced their bipartisan, bicameral Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act to boost security of electronic Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit cards amid a sharp rise in theft by hackers and scammers.
Tens of millions of dollars in SNAP benefits have been stolen by criminals exploiting lax cybersecurity of electronic SNAP benefit cards. Congress has spent years pressing the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to require states to issue cards with secure chips rather than magnetic st...