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State Dept shuts down email system amid traces of hacking
Published Mon, Nov 17, 2014 · 09:50 PM
Washington
THE US State Department scrambled over the weekend to secure its unclassified emails, shutting down the entire email system after finding evidence suggesting a hacker may have been poking around.
A senior State Department official said technicians recently detected "activity of concern" in portions of the system handling unclassified email. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity…
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