[citation][nom]ispyamoose[/nom]Why would the government even connect computers with sensitive data to the web? That's just plain stupid, especially when you know that there are vulnerabilities.[/citation]
Sounds like its a contractors fault, but again, why? I've worked on sensitive (but not secret) projects before, you take measures against this sort of thing.
I want to know how their IT department didn't notice TERABYTES of data being sent outside the network. Even with an OC-192 (10Gbps) backbone that would take a few minutes, considering they probably have a far slower connection, and that data eithre took years to copy or someone wasn't paying attention.