UC fined for lab security breach

The University of California has agreed to pay the federal government $2.8 million over a security breakdown at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Under the settlement, the university has accepted responsibility for the violations, the National Nuclear Security Administration said in a statement.

The penalty stems from an October 2006 incident in which Los Alamos police discovered more than 1,000 pages of classified documents and several computer storage devices during an unrelated drug bust at the trailer of a former worker for a lab subcontractor.