Several federal agencies failed to update system vulnerabilities over the course of the last two administrations and left Americans’ personal information open and vulnerable to theft, a report released Tuesday by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations found.
The report, spearheaded by subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and ranking member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and put together after a 10-month investigation, reviewed data compiled over the last decade by the inspector general on federal information security standards for eight agencies.