Massive security breach at the GSA

It boggles the mind to realize that gargantuan errors like this continue to happen:

WASHINGTON — Federal workers at the General Services Administration are on alert against identity theft after an employee sent the names and Social Security numbers of the agency’s entire staff to a private e-mail address.

The agency, which manages federal property, employs more than 12,000 people...

The agency explained to employees that one worker had apparently transmitted the file containing the personal data by accident while seeking “work-related assistance,” and that it had not been forwarded. Those involved had cooperated, and the computer that received the data was scrubbed clean by agency technicians.