Federal agency spent millions destroying computers for no reason at all | The Raw Story
It started when the Department of Commerce’s cyber incident response
team mistakenly claimed that 146 out of 250 systems on the department’s
network had malware. They later corrected that claim when a lower-level
network tech noticed that 146 actually referred to the number of
computers the EDA had on the department’s network. The real number of
systems infected with malware was just two.
That correction was not quite clear enough, the OIG report explains.
“As a result, EDA continued to believe a widespread malware infection
was affecting its systems,” investigators wrote. Federal News Radio
reporter Jason Miller described what happened next, writing on Monday
that the EDA’s reaction “ended up costing the agency more than $2.7
million to clean up and reconfigure its network and computers.”
I guess this is one way to jump start the failing Tech sector..
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