The fallout fromHillary Clinton ’s home brew emailsetup is induce weird . The Department of State just shut down part of its unclassified e-mail systemin an attempt to extirpate malwarethey just found from Russian hackers . But State ’s spokespeople say everything is okay . in all likelihood .
newsworthiness of the security campaign come from ABC digital reporter Justin Fishel on Friday afternoon . Fishelsaysthe system “ could remain down through the weekend . ” This , just three days after sources first let on Russian malwarehad been in the system for about a year , an attack that the State Department sources say is the “ worst ever . ” The State Department also released a statement to squelch any anxiety :
As a part of the Department of State ’s ongoing movement to ascertain the integrity of our unclassified connection against cyber attacks , the Department is implementing improvements to the security of its main unclassified connection during a short , planned outage of some cyberspace - linked system … There has been no compromise of any of the Department ’s classified systems , nor of our marrow fiscal , consular and human resource system .
So rent ’s get this straight . About ten mean solar day ago , it ’s let on that Hillary Clintonexclusively used a private email accountduring her terminal figure as Secretary of State . Everybody freak out and say that she should ’ve used a State Department email write up , for the most part for security intellect . And it sounds like somebody at the State Department then realized , “ Well , shit , we ’d better ensure our accounts are secure . ” And then found this “ worst ever ” cyber attack .
Well , at least everybody cares now . For whatever that ’s worth at this later level in the game .
[ USA Today ]
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