Government Agencies Reported Record Number of Data Breaches in 2012

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Washington Free Beacon

‘Breaches continue to occur on a regular basis…’

Elizabeth Harrington

January 10, 2014 4:30 pm

 

 

The federal government had a record number of data breaches in 2012, revealing sensitive personal information of its employees across multiple agencies, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

 

A total of 22,156 incidents, caused by nefarious cyber attacks, or inadvertent exposures by agency employees, occurred in 2012, according to a new GAO report on information security released on Wednesday.

 

The report comes as the launch of Healthcare.gov has raised concerns over the privacy of Americans personal information using the government website, which lacks fundamental security safeguards and is vulnerable to attack.

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