Thursday, September 13, 2007

Pentagon email System Breached

Last week, the Pentagon released information stating that an unclassified email system had been hacked. The system was immediately taken off line, and did not fully come back for three weeks. There was a lot of speculation that the Chinese government, as well as the Chinese People's Liberation Army were responsible for the attack, though there is no evidence. A Beijing spokeswoman said that it is all speculation, and the Pentagon has not said anything one way or another. Though the information was not released until last week, the invasion happened last spring. It was also noted that there was no threat to the classified system. There was also a security hack with with information pertaining to the German government, who also claimed that China was responsible. China denied this claim as well. The Pentagon has attempted hacks everyday with many failures to get in. There was no information on how the hacker had gotten as far as they did.

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