Would that Karl Rove’s evil minions were so incompetent.

Hacker breaks into Pentagon email system

By Austin Modine in Mountain View
Published Friday 22nd June 2007 00:20 GMT

The Pentagon took as many as 1,500 computers offline yesterday to stamp out a security breach in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told reporters in a news briefing today that a hacker had penetrated an unclassified OSD email system, prompting the shutdown. The system reportedly does not contain information related to military operations.

“A variety of precautionary measures are being taken. We expect the systems to be online again very soon.”

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