http://fcw.com/articles/2009/11/06/web-nara-it-security-problems.aspx By Ben Bain FCW.com Nov 06, 2009 The National Archives and Records Administration violated its information security policies by returning failed hard drives from systems containing personally identifiable information of current government employees and military veterans back to vendors. By agency policy, NARA is supposed to destroy the hard drives rather than return them, according to a top NARA official. However, the agency believes there was no disclosure of personally identifiable information despite the violations of its own policy, said NARA's then-acting archivist Adrienne Thomas. Thomas told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Information Policy, Census and the National Archives Subcommittee Nov. 5 that on two separate occasions the agency sent defective disk drives back to vendors under a maintenance contract, rather than destroying and disposing of them in-house. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Mon Nov 09 2009 - 22:48:40 PST
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