[privacy] Data Breach Reported at U.S. National Nuclear Safety Administration

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Yeah, I feel secure... Wow.

Via Reuters.

[snip]

A computer hacker got into the U.S. agency that guards the country's nuclear weapons stockpile and stole the personal 
records of at least 1,500 employees and contractors, a senior U.S. lawmaker said on Friday.

The target of the hacker, the National Nuclear Safety Administration, is the latest agency to reveal that sensitive 
private information about government workers was stolen.

The incident happened last September but top Energy Department officials were not told about it until this week, 
prompting the chairman of the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee to demand the resignation of the 
head of the NNSA.

An NNSA spokesman was not available for comment.

[snip]

More:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=12486344

- ferg


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