HHS hacked multiple times last night (UPDATE - "overblown" per DHS)

[Dennis Donovan]

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Jennifer Jacobs ✔@JenniferJJacobs

BREAKING scoop: HHS was hit by a cyber attack last night, sources tell me and @shiramstein. Multiple incidents of hacking.

Jennifer Jacobs ✔@JenniferJJacobs

////BREAKING: U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system Sunday night during the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The attack appears to have been intended to slow the agency’s systems down.

Story w @shiramstein soon

8:38 AM - Mar 16, 2020

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Ellen Nakashima ✔@nakashimae

Reports of an HHS cyberattack are overblown, a DHS source tells me. The site never crashed. It experienced an unusual number of "scans," but on a scale of 1-10, the incident was about a 2, the source tells me.

11:07 AM - Mar 16, 2020

[CottonBear]

1. US Department of Health & Human Services? N/T

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Yep n/t

[Cattledog]

3. HHS.gov is up and working

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Trumpistas ("It's a Dem hoax!") or foreign actors ("fuck up USA with confusion any chance")?

[Mike 03]

5. Our adversaries will try to attack us while we're vulnerable,

which we are now as we haven't been in a long time. Trump has turned our country into a sitting duck.

Utilities
Financial Institutions
Government agencies
Ordinary citizens
People looking for a "miracle cure" for the coronavirus
and probably many other targets.

[Hortensis]

6. Designed to slow their systems down. Not officially reported

yet. HHS has been attacked a bunch of times, and I've read their systems are proven not as secure as they should be. Security's a big part of the "fat" the RW's been cutting to transfer wealth to their cronies.

And of course the private sector. Businesses in the healthcare industry are under constant attack.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Did it have any impact?

[pecosbob]

8. This would be a pretty effective time for any number of cyber attacks on our infrastructure.

I was experiencing a lot of network problems on my credit and debit terminals last night and was thinking how screwed we'd be if our credit networks went down.