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7 of August, 09:21

The Pentagon was afraid of Russian hackers About 4 thousand e-mailbox civilian and military employees of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States has undergone to hacker attack. With all this American military officials believe that the operation was supported by kibervzlomschikov from Russia.

The Pentagon has accused Russian hackers in the attack on personal e-mail system. The attack, which happened on 25 July, was subjected to 4 thousand e-mailbox civilian and military employees of the joint chiefs of staff.

With all this hackers suspected to experts, own coordinated attacks via social networks and use specialized technology to be able to manage malware, but at the same time to remain in the shadows. In such circumstances, it was determined the nationality of cyberjammies is not installed.

With all this, the aim of the attack was unclassified data - messages and account information of employees of the Pentagon, reports NBC News. The internal network of the military Department was running an automated system, which began to collect enormous amounts of information, which further for a minute gave them thousands of accounts on the Internet.

Once the actions of burglars were found, Pentagon experts on cyberathelete covered the entire e-mail system of the defense Ministry. Her work is not recovered to this day - it is assumed that it will happen before August 9.

Under the circumstances, to find where there was a hacker attack is a very difficult task, as responsible for the security of military networks not found its beginning and missed the most important step - the transfer of stolen data. This, however, did not prevent the American civil servants to blame in hacking of inhabitants of Russia.
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