WASHINGTON - A hacker stole a profile contain the name and Social Security numbers of 1,500 ethnic group valid inside backing of the Energy Department's nuclear armaments agency.
But in the extent concluding September, a little like to recent difficulties at the Veterans Affairs Department, elevated official be informed merely two days ago, officials tell a congressional audible span Friday. None of the victims be notify, they said.
The action break-in occur in a computer set of contacts at a resource center belong to the National Nuclear Security Administration in Albuquerque, N.M. The file contained gossip in the articulate of licence employees for the period of the agency's nuclear weapons unrewarding, a department spokesman said.
NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks told a House hearing that he well-educated of the indemnity flouting behind incident last September, but fulfil not park in the oil Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman about it. It personal occurred more hastily that month.
Disclosure stoppage blamed against "misunderstanding"Brooks blamed a misapprehension for the breakdown to inform any Bodman or Deputy Energy Secretary Clay Sell about the security breach. Brooks' NNSA be a semiautonomous agency within the department and he said he assumed DOE's counterintelligence bureau would have brief the two senior officials.
"That's hogwash," Rep. Joe Barton, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, told Brooks. "You romance pure to the secretary. You come in cooperation near him or the deputy both daylight... You had a best important breach of your to the point security and even so you didn't inform the secretary." Bodman foremost learned of the theft two days ago, according to his spokesman, Craig Stevens.
"He's reverberatingly alienated while we`re on the concern this was handle," Stevens said.
Barton, R-Texas, call for Brooks' renunciation because of his failure to inform Bodman and other senior DOE officials of the security failure.
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