Sandia Fined Over $577K For Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified Information

摘要

Sandia Corporation is required to pay a penalty of $577,500 for six classified information security violations,rnaccording to a July 13 Final Notice of Violation (FNOV) from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)rnreleased last week. The violations, dating back to 1997 and discovered in 2012 at Sandia National Laboratories’rnNew Mexico site, involved the use of classified information, including Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information,rnin 13 slides of an employee’s presentation. A Preliminary Notice of Violation (PNOV) issued to Sandia at the endrnof May noted that the presentation had not been submitted for classification review, was given at public venuesrnand remained on an unclassified shared server for years.