Report: 'Sustained Cyberattack' Crippled White House for Two Weeks

by Wynton Hall 29 Oct 2014, 5:51 AM PDT

A "sustained cyberattack" has crippled the White House for at least two weeks or longer, reports the Huffington Post.

The Obama White House confirmed that it "identified activity of concern on the unclassified EOP [Executive Office of the President] network." The Huffington Post cites sources familiar with the situation as saying that this attack was much more significant than usual cyberattacks and was responsible for "putting the system on the fritz for nearly two weeks, if not longer."

The White House said it was not in a position to offer details.

However, as the Post notes, "Network outages are not uncommon in the White House, but they typically last no more than a few hours. For the system to be damaged for days on end indicates an attack of significant strength."

The White House cyberattack revelation comes just weeks after President Barack Obama reportedly told wealthy Democratic donors of a "doomsday" scenario wherein "cyber criminals could literally wipe out the identities of millions of people through some breach of government systems and that could lead to massive chaos," one person with firsthand knowledge of the meeting told Fox Business.

Breitbart

Posted on October 29, 2014 by John Hinderaker in Media, Media Bias, Obama Administration Scandals

More on the Obama Administration Scandal That the Washington Press Corps Tried to Bury

We wrote last night that the story Scott–and no one else–has been reporting for the last week has been confirmed. The computers in the Executive Office of the President have been down for two weeks because they were hacked by a foreign power–the Obama administration now says Russia–and administration technical personnel are having trouble bringing them back on line. This is a huge story, obviously, and it is inconceivable that Power Line knew about it, but no one in the vast Washington press corps got wind of the fact that computer systems belonging to the White House and dozens of important federal agencies (National Security Staff, to name just one) had been hacked and were out of commission.

Another item from yesterday’s limited disclosure by the Obama administration: “U.S. officials were alerted to the breach by an ally.” This means that when the intrusion occurred, we were unaware of it. It also implies that it may have gone on for a long time before someone who spies on Russia–the British? the Israelis?–tipped us off. In other words, even to the extent it has been described by the administration, this was a major failure of American intelligence and technical expertise which could have significant national security repercussions. No wonder the Washington press corps, which consists almost entirely of Democrats, wanted to keep it quiet until after the election!

POWERLINE

The October 28th article from POWERLINE mentioned the article above.