Security Breach at Lab Serious or Not?

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO), an independent government watchdog group, claims in a press release that the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory accidentally released "classified data via email" last week. "The incident, which has been confirmed by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), is rated among 'the most serious threats to national security,'" according to the press release.

POGO gave no details about the breach or what may have been inadvertently sent in an email.

The Albuquerque Tribune reports that Los Alamos officials acknowledge the breach occurred, but they take exception with POGO's characterization of the seriousness of the breach. "An employee inadvertently sent sensitive information onto a lab network that lab spokesman Kevin Roark described as an internal, password-protected system only accessible by employees," according to the article.

The ball is back in POGO's court. Just what did the group confirm?