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Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Politico (few on the right are covering this) ^ | December 17th, 2020 | By NATASHA BERTRAND

Posted on 12/17/2020 1:11:47 PM PST by Mariner

The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of an extensive espionage operation that has affected at least half a dozen federal agencies, officials directly familiar with the matter said.

On Thursday, DOE and NNSA officials began coordinating notifications about the breach to their congressional oversight bodies after being briefed by Rocky Campione, the chief information officer at DOE.

They found suspicious activity in networks belonging to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories in New Mexico and Washington, the Office of Secure Transportation and the Richland Field Office of the DOE. The hackers have been able to do more damage at FERC than the other agencies, the officials said, but did not elaborate.

Federal investigators have been combing through networks in recent days to determine what hackers had been able to access and/or steal, and officials at DOE still don’t know whether the attackers were able to access anything, the people said, noting that the investigation is ongoing and they may not know the full extent of the damage “for weeks.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: doe; ferc; nnsa; uhoh
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The principal management platform for this organizations was completely compromised for at least 9 months.

Of course the hackers got everything they wanted.

Every person with cyber security responsibility throughout the government should be charged with criminal negligence and reckless endangerment. As well as those so responsible in civilian critical infrastructure.

And hope and pray the hacker does not want to shut everything down.

Because they can now.

1 posted on 12/17/2020 1:11:47 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

BiXiden’s fault.


2 posted on 12/17/2020 1:13:54 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Biden has not yet taken office.


3 posted on 12/17/2020 1:14:24 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

They say Hackers, but what if this is what the Biden Crime Family was Paid for?? Maybe they had passwords.


4 posted on 12/17/2020 1:14:48 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: eyeamok

everybody had the password.

it was solarwinds123.


5 posted on 12/17/2020 1:16:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

It appears as though the treasonous among us may have delivered for what they have been paid.


6 posted on 12/17/2020 1:17:37 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Mariner

He has the Office of the POS-elect....


7 posted on 12/17/2020 1:17:58 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Mariner

I have always said what’s the point of HIPPA and all the rest of that nonsense when you put everything on the internet including your smart house and banking?


8 posted on 12/17/2020 1:21:22 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: mo

“It appears as though the treasonous among us may have delivered for what they have been paid.”

It’s more easily explained by stupidity and negligence.


9 posted on 12/17/2020 1:25:52 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: eyeamok

Looks like Sino-Collusion to ME!


10 posted on 12/17/2020 1:32:12 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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I have always said what’s the point of HIPPA

Where would we be today if the voters knew just how many STDs Clinton has?

Where would we be today if the voters could see the clock face Biden drew in his cognitive evaluation?

Where would we be today if the voters knew which antipsychotic drugs Madam Speaker is on?

Hint: there's a reason HIPPA got votes from so many senators and congress critters!

13 posted on 12/17/2020 1:49:28 PM PST by null and void (My President is a Person Of Color, Orange is a Color...)
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solarwinds123 Hysterical!

On a more serious note, OK some malware got in,,,,but it wasn't detected at Department of Treasury, DOE, or any other department in government since what, March? It took an outside company to find it?

This is not good.

14 posted on 12/17/2020 1:49:29 PM PST by tarpit
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To: ping jockey

Trump: This is war.
CIA: Yep NSA: Yep
Trump: What are you going to do about it?
Response: Nothing.


15 posted on 12/17/2020 1:50:33 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Mariner

But of course the report today from ODNI is that there was NO hacking of the election machines. None. “Most secure election in American history.”


16 posted on 12/17/2020 1:53:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: Mariner

It was a low level ‘Secret’ network, just one step above Confidential - not Top Secret, SAP, or other which is were the good stuff lies. The real excellent stuff is not even on a network


17 posted on 12/17/2020 2:03:25 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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O K . SO they can hack what should be THE MOST SECURE DATA IN THE WORLD but the can’t hack a Dominion Machine? RIIIIGHHT.

Especially when you consider that Dominion was a customer of SolarWinds.

18 posted on 12/17/2020 2:09:16 PM PST by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: PIF

Yeah, I’m sure that’s what they say. I had an interaction with the lab once on a similar topic. They are not trustworthy an will happily conceal a mistake.


19 posted on 12/17/2020 2:14:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: SgtHooper

My money is on China.


20 posted on 12/17/2020 2:21:16 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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