Just days after President Donald Trump fired the U.S. Coast Guard commandant, investigators confirmed Wednesday the military branch left computer systems and sensitive data vulnerable to foreign adversaries and hackers in a cybersecurity blunder that also left Pentagon systems dangerously exposed.
The Homeland Security inspector general reported that the Coast Guard failed to followed required cybersecurity procedures for at least three of its computer systems that transmitted data to and from the Department of Defense Information Network and that as a result national security was placed at risk.
“The three systems we reviewed, and other similarly situated systems in the Coast Guard’s enterprise, are vulnerable to cybersecurity weaknesses and exposed to un-assessed risks that could result in the unauthorized disclosure or compromise of sensitive Coast Guard information,” the federal watchdog warned in a report that included redactions for security information.
“Adversaries also could leverage these cybersecurity weaknesses to compromise the DODIN, placing DoD and Coast Guard personnel, assets, and the Nation at risk,” the report also reads.
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