I know a short term solution. Here is the local Canadian example. I forgot the exact details as I read it long time ago. The basic idea was that that the government scammed a man of his money and then was taking their time (years of course) to return. Somehow this man managed to convince the court so the police just came to a government office in Montreal and shut it down threatening to confiscate all the property. Suddenly the whole thing got resolved in few days.

Basically the idea is that in cases like this the government must be made hurting and there are plenty of ways to make them really hurting without doing anything extreme. Just suspend the salary of the whole office and see how their attention span suddenly change. And whoever voted in laws allowing such a gross fuck ups - fine them for negligence when introducing laws without safety measures built in, or give them all inclusive accommodation in Club Fed.

I hear a lot of blubbering here advocating people to be jailed for not following proper security with infrastructure software. Well I think the cases like the one mentioned should be a higher priority.