The Risk of Working Remotely

An AP article today covered the exposure of a report related to a Congressional ethics committee meeting. Apparently it contained some not-yet disclosed ethics investigations into some current US Congressional Representatives.

What's really interesting to me, however, is how the material was exposed, through "cyber-hacking":

"A committee statement said that its security was breached through 'peer to peer file sharing software' by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired."

Obviously we are missing a few details here, however it seems that a staffer took some work home and stored it on a PC that had peer-to-peer sharing enabled. Now, this may all end up being a political smoke screen covering what really happened, but if this is indeed the story it should serve to highlight the risks associated with taking sensitive information off organizations relatively-controllable network, and working on unsecured home PCs.