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Auditors: One NASA Hack Cost $1.5M

Wilson P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

A recent series of intrusions into the Earth Observing System’s networks “cost NASA $1.5 million for incident mitigation and cleanup costs alone,” said the agency’s inspector general, Robert Cobb, in a memo issued Nov. 13.

Those costs came on top of the “operational impact to the agency‘s mission, such as the temporary suspension of automated processes,” caused by the criminal hack of the networks, Cobb said. The memo was addressed to NASA’s administrator and accompanied the IG’s report titled “NASA’s Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges.”

“Our criminal investigative efforts over the past five years confirm that the threats to NASA’s information are broad in scope, sophisticated and sustained,” auditors wrote in the report.

posted by Fergie @ 11/16/2007 02:53:00 PM