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IP: Wired News: Report of military personnel medical records hackis FALSE
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/15372.html
Pentagon Takes Back Hack
Wired News Report
7:45 p.m. 1.Oct.98.PDT
The US Department of Defense said
Thursday last week's report of crackers
penetrating military Web sites and
altering soldiers' medical files were
inaccurate.
Instead, a "Red Team" of American
military computer experts carried out a
simulated attack designed to test the
security of the Pentagon's computer
networks, said a spokeswoman for the
Defense Department.
"The simulated attack is part of the
recent exercises to assess the danger to
unclassified material, such as personnel
records," Suzan Hansen said Thursday.
The confusion arose last week, when
Money told the Armed Forces
Communications and Electronics
Association Conference that crackers had
accessed a medical database in the
southeastern United States and changed
blood types in soldiers' records.
Hansen said that Money was merely
referring to a Red Team exercise, not a
real cyberattack.
At the conference, Money reportedly said
that the Red Team exercise prompted the
Pentagon to develop a more restrictive
security policy on the type of information
that will be stored in military computers
connected to the Internet.
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