Russian hackers used State Dept. systems to Phish White House staffers

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2907122/data-protection/russian-hackers-used-state-dept-systems-to-phish-white-house-staffers.html

By Steve Ragan
CSO
Apr 7, 2015

U.S. officials, who have been briefed on the investigation so far, have 
told CNN that Russian hackers used their access after compromising the 
U.S. State Department to target sensitive information on the unclassified 
White House network.

Last October, a White House official told Reuters that suspicious activity 
had been detected on the Executive Office of the President (EOP) network.

The incident was blamed for an outage on the EOP network a week prior to 
the story breaking, somewhat aligning with statements given to the 
Washington Post by officials who noted that the problems on the 
unclassified network were caused by hackers out of Russia.

CNN's story however, adds new details to the previous coverage. While the 
blame is still centered on actors out of Russia, the unclassified network 
that was breached held sensitive information the hackers are said to have 
had access to, including real-time non-public details of the president's 
schedule.

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