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Federal Security Breaches Double in Four Months

Jill R. Aitoro writes on GovExec:

Federal agencies report an average of 30 incidents a day in which Americans' personally identifiable information is exposed, double the incidents reported early this summer, according to the top information technology executive in the Bush administration.

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo in July 2006 requiring agencies to report security incidents that expose personally identifiable information to the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team within one hour of the security incident. In June 2007, 40 agencies reported almost 4,000 such security incidents, an average of about 14 per day. As of this week, the average had increased to 30 a day, said Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology at OMB.

posted by Fergie @ 10/23/2007 11:53:00 AM