Tag: White House Military Office

U.S. Investigating White House Cyber Attack

Officials: President Obama was not informed at the time the White House Military Office hack was discovered

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Law enforcement and national security agencies are investigating the hacking of a White House computer last month that penetrated a network inside the White House Military Office that handles top-secret data, U.S. officials said.

White House Hack Attack

Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football

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Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most sensitive computer networks, breaching a system used by the White House Military Office for nuclear commands, according to defense and intelligence officials familiar with the incident. One official said the cyber breach was one of Beijing’s most brazen cyber attacks against the United States and highlights a failure of the Obama administration to press China on its persistent cyber attacks.