The Pentagon's Joint Chief Of Staff Unclassified Email System Was Hacked By Russian Hackers

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CBS: Pentagon's Joint Staff email was victim of "sophisticated" intrusion

The Joint Staff's unclassified email system which was hacked during the last weekend of July remains off line over a week later, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports. The reason cited is that the attack was, Martin said, "a new sophisticated intrusion" of the kind that could only be mounted by a state actor, although the question of which state is still not clear. The system is expected to be back on line Thursday.

Those affected by the attack are the roughly 4,000 mostly military personnel who work for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The Joint Staff took its unclassified e-mail system off line because of some suspicious probes over the weekend of July 25. The classified network is not affected, and senior members of the Joint Staff were provided with an alternative means of exchanging unclassified e-mail, according to Martin.

WNU Editor: So far it is only the unclassified email system that has been hacked .... but one has to wonder if the "classified" networks have been compromised.

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