DHS employees accessed sensitive files

An immigration application processing center in Texas is in hot water after staffers accessed their bosses’ emails.

The 17 employees abused system logon privileges to gain access to files containing sensitive information on contract awards and immigration reforms.

NextGov reports federal agents also found so-called hackware in several computer drives — software that lets users intercept business information passing through the agency’s network.

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