State Department Emails Hacked

It’s as old as time itself. Governments spying on governments. Carrier pigeons being shot down. Letters snuck behind enemy lines. Morse code deciphered. Special radio signals, intercepted. It’s one of the most valuable commodities known to man: communication. And today is no different. In fact, we’re learning of a new, massive attack on the communication happening on Capitol Hill.

Workers at the State Department will have to find new ways to send unclassified emails. The hack attack targeted the unclassified email system and other staffers. Now, the system has been shut down until the techs can get inside and patch the holes. According to an AP report, an inside source says all the systems will be fully operational in the near future, possibly as soon as this week. But while government officials tell people not to worry, the damage has already been done. Emails have been exposed, security has been breached.

But officials won’t go so far as to say who they think could be responsible. Earlier attacks have been blamed on Russian or Chinese hackers. Could they be at it again? This breach is believed to have happened around the same time the White House computer network was targeted. And those are hardly the first agencies to come under hack attack. The Postal Service and also the National Weather Service have both reported breaches just in recent days.

That’s right. Federal Government agencies want the right to spy on your private emails and phone calls, but yet, they can’t even protect their own. The excuses of national security are only surpassed by the ineptitudes of national cybersecurity.