Email us! Subscribe to Liquidmatrix!

US State Department Loses 1,000 Laptops

Ouch!

From vnunet:

An audit at the US State Department has revealed the loss of over 1,000 laptops, some of which held security information.

Around $30m worth of computing hardware is “unaccounted for”, the bulk of it laptops. These include over 400 from the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, some containing security material.

Nita M. Lowey, a representative on the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees State Department operations, told Congressional Quarterly that she is “concerned” about the security revelations.

Sigh.

Article Link

Tag It: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Slashdot
  • Technorati
  • SphereIt
  • StumbleUpon
  • Fark
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Furl
  • Spurl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • NewsVine
Related Articles:

  • DOT Loses A Laptop…Who’s Next?
  • Ernst & Young loses four more laptops
  • My parents went to D.C. and all I got was this lousy laptop…
  • 200,000 HP staff exposed as laptop lost
  • Pennsylvania Voter Site Springs Data Leak
  • Matt said,

    May 8, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

    Stupid.

    RSS feed for comments on this post

    Leave a Comment