The report also details new cases of agency employees and contractors viewing pornography on SEC computers, following reports last year that 30 workers had improperly used agency computers for that purpose in the preceding five years.
An accountant based at the agency's Washington headquarters "successfully accessed numerous sexually explicit photographs from his SEC computer, including graphic depictions of sexual acts" -- often during normal work hours, according to the report. Managers recommended that he be fired, the report said.
Two Washington-based attorneys were also accused of accessing pornography at work. One of them resigned, according to the report, and management recommended that the other -- who used an SEC computer to access "inappropriate images of partially or fully nude women" -- be fired.
In another case, a contractor was fired and escorted from the building after admitting he had been viewing pornography on his SEC computer for at least a year, even as he'd received computer training and notices that such behavior was banned.
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said last year that she was "angry and frustrated that a very few individuals have demonstrated that they are willing to place the credibility of the SEC at risk."
John Nester, an SEC spokesman, declined to comment on the inspector general's investigations.