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Article excerpt: In October 2009, a data breach on Capitol Hill that revealed the names of at least eight lawmakers being investigated for ethics violations called into question the cybersecurity policies that exist for Congress and led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to pledge an "immediate and comprehensive assessment" of how the entire legislative body handles sensitive data.
Generally, the House ethics committee does not reveal the names of representatives involved in preliminary investigations in order to protect them from unfairly being associated with impropriety.
But representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA), Laura Richardson (D-CA) and up to six others were identified as targets of committee probes after a junior staffer improperly uploaded an internal document to a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, making it accessible to virtually anyone.
Experts believe the file was downloaded by users in Washington, New York and even as far away as London, and the leak became public after the Washington Post published the news.
The staffer responsible was fired soon thereafter, but that provided little solace for lawmakers whose reputations can be clouded by even the specter of investigation.
REPORTED BY https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-213224519/security-breach-on-capitol-hill