The mystery was solved. The NSA said the bad weather was responsible for the downtime of pfor almost two days.
The shadowy intelligence agency said Wednesday afternoon that it had a "technical issue" related to Monday's storm in the area of the agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland. The problems with her by clicking here of the NSA were first observed at the same time on Monday.
Kevin Beaumont, a technician security, he told Twitter ότι οι εξωτερικές υπηρεσίες της NSΑ – συμπεριλαμβανομένης και της ιστοσελίδας της αλλά και άλλες μη-εσωτερικές Web υπηρεσίες, βγήκαν offline, αν και υπάρχουν υποψίες ότι ο ίδιος ο οργανισμός “τράβηξε το βύσμα.”
However, looking at Monday weather, there were storms and intense rainfall in the Fort Meade area in Maryland, where the NSA headquarters are located.
The moment of time, however, allows various correlations….
A day earlier, a hacking group believed to be linked to the NSA, known as the Equation Group, was targeted by hackers, resulting in the leak of dozens exploits used to attack various targets and systems. Another group, calling itself the Shadow Brokers, obtained the exploits and began auctioning them off with the goal of selling the tools to the highest bidder.
Given the breach, many thought the NSA website was down for some "internal review."
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