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Sandia National Laboratories

San Francisco, CA: (Apr-17-07) Shawn Carpenter, a former security analyst at Sandia National Laboratories, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the organization after being fired in January 2005 for sharing information related to an internal network compromise with the FBI and the US Army. Sandia stated that Carpenter had violated company rules by inappropriately sharing confidential information he had gathered in his role as a security analyst for the laboratory. Carpenter said he had done so for national security reasons. He said his independent investigations of a May 2004 breach had unearthed evidence showing that the intruders who had broken into Sandia's networks belonged to a Chinese hacking group called Titan Rain, which also had attacked other sensitive networks and stolen US military and other classified documents. He claimed that he had tried to get the information to the other agencies through proper channels at Sandia before deciding to share the information on his own. A federal jury decided in favor of Carpenter, awarding him more than $4.7 million in damages. [COMPUTER WORLD: SECURITY ANALYST FIRED]


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Published on Apr-23-07


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