[privacy] Federal Security Breaches Double in Four Months

[Paul Ferguson]

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Via GovExec.

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Federal agencies report an average of 30 incidents a day in which
Americans' personally identifiable information is exposed, double the
incidents reported early this summer, according to the top information
technology executive in the Bush administration.

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo in July 2006 requiring
agencies to report security incidents that expose personally identifiable
information to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team within one hour
of the security incident. In June 2007, 40 agencies reported almost 4,000
such security incidents, an average of about 14 per day. As of this week,
the average had increased to 30 a day, said Karen Evans, administrator of
the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology at OMB.

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More:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=38348

- - ferg

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