Breached dam data poses no threat to public, Army says

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https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238863/Breached_dam_data_poses_no_threat_to_public_Army_says

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
May 2, 2013

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today downplayed the 
significance of a recent incident of unauthorized access to a database 
containing potentially sensitive information on thousands of high hazard dams 
across the country.

The unauthorized access to the National Inventory of Dams (NID) was granted in 
January to an individual that fraudulently obtained login credentials. The 
access wasn't revoked until late last month when the Corps of Engineers 
discovered the subterfuge.

The spokesman said that the individual had access to "data reserved for 
government users, per agreement among NID participating agencies."

However, he contended that the information accessed doesn't present a threat to 
the public or critical infrastructure, he said.

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