Auditors: One NASA Hack Cost $1.5M

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via GCN.com.

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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.

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More:
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45450-1.html

- - ferg

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