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Official reprimanded in DOE hacker case
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:59:51 -0400 (EDT)
Courtesy InfoSec News and WK: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_File_Theft.html By H. JOSEF HEBERT ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER July 20, 2006 WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has reprimanded a senior official because 1,502 nuclear weapons workers were not told for nearly 10 months that their Social Security numbers and other information had been stolen by a computer hacker. The action came as the department's inspector general blamed a breakdown in communications and poor management judgment for the failures to properly respond to the theft. The IG report also said there was a "lengthy delay in the department's assessment of the impact" of the improper penetration of the National Nuclear Security Administration's computers at a service center in Albuquerque, N.M., last September. The incident was not made public, nor were the individuals whose information had been compromised informed, until June. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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