[Dataloss] Official reprimanded in DOE hacker case

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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.

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