A cyberneticattack carried out on the systems of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was allegedly “restricted” by the law enforcement agency of USA.
CNN he says, via anonymous sources, that the attack took place at the FBI offices in New York on computers that uses the agency to investigate “child sexual exploitation images”.
In a statement to CNN, an FBI spokesman admitted there had been a cyberattack on their systems, but added: "This is an isolated incident that has been contained." At this time, there is no information on who may be responsible for this incident.
This is certainly not the first time the FBI has had to deal with hackers attacking the agency, either directly or indirectly. In November 2021, someone hacked an email address of the FBI and used it to send over 100.000 emails to organizations.
These messages they contained a false prenotice which claimed that the Department of Homeland Security was looking into a cyber attack on the recipients. The FBI said at the time that it had fixed a software bug that led to the emails, but to date there is no word on who breached the address e-mail.