US finance agency staff left computer data vulnerable to cyber attacks: report
The staffers have misused computers to download music, while failing to protect sensitive information
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has spent nearly $200,000 on investigating the errors made by their staff responsible for monitoring the markets and stock exchanges broadly.
A 43-page report following the probe found that employees of SEC misused the government resources to download music and failed to secure sensitive information in their computers making them vulnerable to harckers. The staffers claimed have misused computers to download music, while failing to protect sensitive information that feared losing data after the laptops were taken to the hacker conference, the report revealed.