And used to place $12,000 worth of calls to the Middle East.

A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.
The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski.

Evidently this is a known problem that could have been avoided if FEMA had put basic safety measures in place.
Our tax dollars in action.
BTW, I think the slant of the article is pretty funny. FEMA isn’t really a major component of Homeland Security but the first line of the article makes the connection and the Yahoo home page makes it even stronger “Homeland Security hacked.” Um…not quite. It was the mismanaged FEMA that was hacked, not the (hopefully) more secure Homeland Security department.