Energy Department Breach Years In Making, Investigators Say - InformationWeek

Energy Department Breach Years In Making, Investigators Say - InformationWeek

Energy Department Breach Years In Making, Investigators Say

July data breach that affected up to 150,000 employees traces back to a string of managerial and technical failures, investigators conclude.

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The July 2013 Department of Energy breach happened because of an ongoing number of managerial and technological failures, some of them stretching back years.

That's the top-level takeaway from a 28-page report, released Wednesday, by Gregory H. Friedman, the inspector general (IG) of the Department of Energy. The IG's report is a result of an investigation that was launched, in part at the request of the DOE's CIO, after an attacker hacked into the DOE Employee Data Repository (aka DOEInfo), which is accessed via a gateway provided by the agency's management information system (MIS).