Hackers attacked US Military institutions
A “sophisticated cyberattack” has been detected at Oak Ridge National Laboratory over the last several weeks, and authorities suspect the hackers are based in China. The breach might have compromised the personal information of thousands of visitors to the lab, according to a communiqué sent to employees. The intrusion is under active investigation by multiple agencies. FBI and Department of Homeland Security. Investigators have not been able to determine whether the attacks came from government or private entities in China. The statement, from Laboratory Director Thom Mason, said the attack “appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country.”
As for the Oak Ridge breach, the message went on to explain that “hackers potentially succeeded in gaining access to one of the laboratory’s nonclassified databases that contained personal information of visitors to the laboratory between 1990 and 2004.” The personal information at risk includes names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of the visitors. As part of the hit, “thieves made approximately 1,100 attempts to steal data with a very sophisticated strategy that involved sending staff a total of seven ‘phishing’ e-mails, all of which at first glance appeared legitimate.” One of the fake e-mails appeared to be an announcement for a scientific conference; the other claimed it was a notice of a complaint on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission. The lab’s investigation found that approximately 11 employees took the bait and opened the e-mail attachments, “which enabled the hackers to infiltrate the system and remove data.” The sensitive Tennessee nuclear research facility has a staff of more than 4,200 and hosts approximately 3,000 guest researchers each year. Yaikes.
Source: ABC News
It wasn’t me.
Mckinnon in da house
Me neither…
I was sleeping…so not me
If an agency like that get fooled by PhiShinG then they deserved to get dry bum FoCk$d, then left to dry OO,MM,GG how embarassing…!!!!
hm, so their email virus scanners are not very good… scary.
@10 LMAO!
Why the HeII do they connect NucIear PIants to the internet in the first PIace?
this is dumber by the minute
LMFAO, I love you guys.
Don’t download. Rar files are corrupt.
good thing they only stole personal info on vistors and not some of the nuclear reasearch that goes on at that facility! somewhat scary for me because i only live about and hour away from that facility in tennessee. that place blows up im dead for sure!!!
Good, those bastards deserve it.
LOL…. Dugg for the comments alone. Oh wait.
lol@5
and @ 15, exactly! No one is safe, it just takes time and a whole heap of patience.
#22 - That’s what they tell us. As if they would readily admit to something worse or more dangerous.
LOL @ 24
but some ass reported the files and they got deleted
frikkin newbz, GOSH
dude… there were no files to begin with… it wouldn’t be a ts……….. sucks for those people.
ahah US Military is soooo …. MUAHAHA
Stallowned!
@24: pi55ed my pants….
Chinese have been cyberattacking hard targets for many years. This is just another win for them. They will beef up security even more now but its a little too late now after the fact.
hahahahahahahaha
China 1 - Bush 0
Wow…WorldWarIII? US versus China?
I’m suprised the US dont try to spin it so Iran is involved somehow.
damn commies
i doubt is was the Chinese government…. or maybe the government hired private hackers….. u never know
Just like Bourne! Will he regain his memory? Stay tuned to find out!
Actually china has done this a few months ago, tracking the whereabouts of a certain U.S politician. I think this is more troubling than iran and their 3 mile radius worthless nukes. If I was bush I would show them how he walks in texas, or have vladmir putin put the chinese leader in a rear naked choke.
forget bush he walks with broken knee caps anyways.. Putin will put the Vald back in Vodka (Take no Prisoners eh!>.)
Vlad*
Yaaaaarg, ’tis a grand day upon these seas. Yaaaarg. Nice carm waters, ’tis a good day indeed.
thats the way the spy game works these days…The USA is doing the same thing to China.
China’s coming to fook us up……..
@ all: who deletes the comments… staff?
US military can be hacked? Troubling news…
lol i think so…my comment was deleted aswell lawl
No, it was a US-based private military corporation in cooperation with a corrupt general from the Japanese Self Defense Force. They piggybacked the signal through Seoul Korea to make it look like it was the work of the Chinese & the South Koreans in hopes of inciting the next World War. Don’t worry though, Third Echelon took care of business and the status quo is maintained.
Was this hacker better than halo 3?
yes.. i’m wondering too is this better than halo3..
All I can read is “might… might…might”
It stink of just another round of Amerikan propeganda, from an instution that’s as trustworthy as a rabid dog.
actually this is much better than halo 3
Doom 2 kicks Halo 3’s ass with a chainsaw in each hand..
…HAH HAH HAH!!!…Now Only If We Could Hack “The Football” And Aim The Rockets Towards The White House ;-)…Heh Heh…
Quote!
I’m suprised the US dont try to spin it so Iran is involved somehow.
UnQuote!
this is a good statement whoever said that..cause i doubt this was chinas work….if china didnt we wouldnt find out about it…trust me they wouldnt even disclose that information…it was probably some private corporation…yes us is playing spy games but everybodies doing that..lol since it was a nuclear facility …it would be reasonable to blame it on iran lol..bush probably will end up blaming them..”iran is still dangerous, i am warning you guys!” stupid bush we dont believe you anymore…too bad most of southern states do…anyways a new administration wouldnt solve anything…
its all mason’s a private groups…just forget this even happened..some stupid worker probably got payed to disclose the investigation…this happens all the time i bet..
The best is that in red alert or command and conquer or what was it, china as nation made money by hackers ^^
which were so nicely killed by toxin if you were terrorists…
damn i did not know that the creators of that game was so ahead..
it could of been me on accident cuz when i get drunk i pass out on keyboard and my forehead coulda connected to something by it smashing on the letters, sorry if it was me!
me too
U.S. gov’t are so stupid. Have they ever thought of retaliating. It takes two to tango.
wth cant trust the china midgets!! that is all
#38 i couldn’t agree more. you the only one with brains!
most agents caught for spy recently on the US have been Isrealis AIPAC spy scandal being the most recent so it might actually be Israel.
but if they had anti-virus software, then they opened the attachment shouldn’t it have detected it?
i m getting errors unpacking the RAR’s……….?
@ 53
most antivir software run on database that consists detection rules, or a heuristic filter that looks for odd behauvior, but a custom-made trojan/worm could easily slip pass especially if it was the first time they utilized the variant(since there would be no known detection rules for it)
the chinese are building up with the obvious goal of taking over the world. we should just nuke them back into the stone age right now. war is inevitable.
and in the process we should wipe out the world’s two scummiest countries, israel and france
is their servers microsoft or linux?!
@56
And people wonder why nobody likes the US…
it was Jeff K.
…i did it again.
their kung-fu must be better. i fruked upt an brokeded da rice papper
lol@ 1-60
chinese porn is off the hook too!
http://dailyhugemovs.com/teen/index.php?id=1096&style=orange
i passed out again on the keyboard, did i do it again on accident?
@58
people might not like us in the US but the fact remains if we had a leader with more balls, we could f*ck up this world in one quick swoop. ever hear of antimatter. we have. we own 95 percent of the worlds antimatter. we have been making it for over 20 years.
hmm… so an Iranian hacker could in theory hack in and trigger a nuke explosion who need 3mile nukes
Old news, been happening for the last 2 months. Wouldn’t mind if the feds called up for a job though lol…