Cybersecurity
IBM Settles With Pentagon on Long-Disputed Hacking Allegation
- Protection of National Defense University called inadequate
- Company said university failed to implement recommendations
Photographer: Andreas Arnold/Bloomberg
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An 11-year-old Pentagon case against International Business Machines Corp. ended quietly in October when it agreed to pay the government $900,000 to settle claims involving hacking attacks on the National Defense University that began in 2006.
“It was alleged that IBM submitted false claims for the information technology services that it provided NDU,” the Defense Department’s inspector general said, disclosing the settlement in its latest semiannual report. “IBM allegedly did not fulfill its contractual obligations to provide substantial network security services” under an Army contract that began in 2003.