The NSA issued a statement Friday night that they were not the subject of an external attack: “an internal system error caused its website to go down for several hours Friday during a scheduled update”.
The “problem would be resolved Friday night” statement seemed to be premature since their site is still down as of 11:15 AM, Saturday, October 26th, 2013.
David DeGerolamo
NSA denies website was hacked, cites internal error
The National Security Agency says an internal system error caused its website to go down for several hours Friday during a scheduled update.
There had been speculation on the Internet that the online site had been hit with a denial-of-service attack, but the agency said that was not true.
The NSA said the problem would be resolved Friday night.
After the website went dark, a Twitter account affiliated with the hacker group Anonymous appeared to claim responsibility.
A tweet from the handle @AnonyOps read, “Aww don’t panic about nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet.”
