FBI shuts down hacked e-mail accounts
FBI shuts down hacked e-mail accounts
- By Wilson P. Dizard III
- Feb 04, 2005
The FBI late Friday confirmed reports that parts of its fbi.gov e-mail system had been hacked.
'The FBI is aware of a compromise to a commercial e-mail system which hosts a limited number of fbi.gov accounts,' according to a bureau statement. 'The e-mail service is provided by a commercial vendor.
'These accounts are used for nonsensitive, nonsecure communications and do not impact secure internal and external FBI e-mail accounts,' the statement continued. 'The FBI has suspended use of these fbi.gov accounts pending completion of a review of the matter.'
An FBI official confirmed that some of the accounts involved were provided by AT&T Corp.
The hacking incident is the latest in a rough period for the bureau, during which its top IT leadership admitted that the FBI has wasted more than $100 million in a failed attempt to build a new case management system called
Virtual Case File.