Watchdog warns FBI is sloppy on secure data storage and destruction

The FBI has made serious slip-ups in how it processes and destroys electronic storage media seized as part of investigations, according to an audit by the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General. Drives containing national security data, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act information and documents classified …

[NoneSuch]

If anyone wonders why it took them twenty years to catch Robert Hanssen, here you go...

[Anonymous Coward]

Number of people who can access your confidential files

Four Million (4,000,000). Number of people who can access your confidential files. Given this, I figure there's lots of leakage going on.

[Paul Hovnanian]

On the other hand ...

... contractors for OPM (Office of Personnel Management), the administration that took over screening for security clearances from the FBI have lost records on several occasions.

So perhaps this is a case of whataboutery with a side helping of "now can we have our lucrative contracts back please?"

[Richard 12]

Report says it's not possible to identify theft

Statement says no theft has been identified.

So, that's ok then.

[trindflo]

"has completed security enhancements and procedural changes to mitigate the concerns identified."

They've been moved to a very private bathroom in Florida.

[Will Godfrey]

Becoming the norm

How long will it be before anyone who does keep information properly secured gets marked as a subversive?