The U.s. Government Is Under (cyber) Attack

The State Department on Monday joined the White House and two other federal agencies in confirming that it had been the victim of a recent and successful cyberattack. Spokesman Jeff Rathke told reporters at Foggy Bottom that officials "detected activity of concern" several weeks ago targeting its unclassified email system and that it used a "scheduled outage" to address the problem this past weekend.

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