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UC Faces $3M Fine for Security Breach at Los Alamos

Charles Burress writes in The San Francisco Chronicle:

Federal officials Friday affirmed a $3-million fine they had proposed to levy against the University of California for a serious security lapse last year at the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory in New Mexico.

The "final notice of violation" was filed by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration, which issued a preliminary notice of the fine in July.

The fine followed an incident in which an employee of a subcontractor downloaded more than 1,000 pages of classified documents, including data on nuclear weapons design, on a thumb drive and took them to her mobile home, where they were discovered in a drug raid targeting another resident.

UC officials had objected to the fine, saying they had followed proper procedures.

posted by Fergie @ 9/28/2007 08:15:00 PM