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CIA Report Faults 'Woefully Lax' Cybersecurity in 2017 Breach

A newly released internal CIA report investigating a 2017 data breach slammed the organization’s cybersecurity as “woefully lax.” So reports Reuters.

Wikileaks' Julian AssangeThe CIA’s hacking tools were posted by WikiLeaks in March 2017 in what the report calls “the largest data loss in CIA history.”

“Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords, there were no effective removable media controls, and historical data was available to users indefinitely,” reads the October 2017 report, released by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon).

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