Pentagon confirms email system hacked....

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 4:16pm

Pentagon confirms email system hacked.

David Edwards
Published: Thursday June 21, 2007

The Pentagon confirmed that its e-mail system was hacked, CNN reported Thursday afternoon.

"Here at the Pentagon, officials are confirming that they've been hacked," a CNN news anchor reported. "It's actually a fairly serious matter."

The report continued, "About one third of the computer users here in the Pentagon that work for Defense Secretary Robert Gates had their email system penetrated."

According to CNN, the Pentagon's computer server was taken off line on Wednesday, along with the email server.

"We have been told service is not yet fully restored to the Secretary's staff," CNN reported. "Let's emphasize, this is an unclassified server system [that] was penetrated. There are about 3,000 staff people here in the Pentagon that work for Secretary Gates, and since yesterday about one-third of them, just about 1,500 users or so, lost their email service."

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[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 5:23pm

1,500 is a third of 3,000 now?

Wow, they really went nuts with that New Math! This explains everything...

[Mythus]

Posted: 6/21/07 at 5:56pm

News reporters are rarely good at percentages, Jailyard, as far as I've seen. There was a headline in the Boston Globe (I think) recently stating that gay marriage supporters outspent gay marriage opponents 2:1 - the article went on to say that supporters spent $1.5 million, and opponents spent $.5 million.