Russian hackers behind the damaging Cyber intrusion of the state department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to US officials briefed on the investigation.
While the White House has said the breach only ever affected an unclassified system, that description belies the seriousness of the intrusion. The hackers had access to sensitive information such as information is not classified, it still highly sensitive and prized by foreign intelligence agencies, US officials say.
The FBI, secret service and US intelligence agencies are all involved in investigating the break, which they consider among the most sophisticated attacks ever launched against US government system. the intrusion was routed through computer around the world, as hackers often do to hide their tracks, but investigators found tell-tale codes and other markers that they believe point to hackers working for the russian government. a spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment. neither the US State Department or the Russian immediately embassy responded to a request for comment.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/07/politics/how-russians-hacked-the-wh/index.html
It makes me a little uneasy to know that there are hackers out there that are smart enough to hack into the system of the most powerful leader in the world.
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