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Nuclear Agency Employees Suffer Information Theft
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration for nine months failed to notify officials and victims of the computer hacking theft of sensitive information on 1,500 agency employees, administration officials told lawmakers on Friday (see GSN, Jan. 17). A computer hacker gained access to names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, work locations and security clearances from the NNSA center in Albuquerque, the New York Times reported. Members of the House Energy and Subcommittee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee reacted angrily at a hearing Friday after learning that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman and top DOE officials did not learn of the theft for months. Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Texas) called for NNSA chief Linton Brooks to resign. “And I mean like 5 o’clock this afternoon, if it’s possible,” Barton told Brooks. “I don’t see how you could meet with the secretary every day the last seven or eight months and not inform him.” Representative Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) asked Brooks who should have notified Bodman, the Times reported. Brooks answered, “That sounds like such an obvious, clear question, and I believe that one of the things we’re leaning from this is the answer isn’t as clear as it should have been.” Brooks said he assumed that someone had notified Bodman. “There are a number of us who in hindsight should have done things differently on informing, as far as I can tell,” Brooks said. Bodman was “deeply disturbed by the way this was handled” and has called for an investigation by the Energy Department inspector general, said Craig Stevens, Bodman’s spokesman (David Stout, New York Times, June 10).
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