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The Untold Story Of A Massive Hack At HHS In Covid’s Early Days
Former officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services attribute the cyberattack to a state-level actor.
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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On March 15, 2020, just days after the US declared a national emergency because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the computer network for the US Department of Health and Human Services briefly vanished from the internet. In public remarks the following day, HHS Secretary Alex Azar attributed the 10-minute outage to a cyberattack but downplayed its severity, telling reporters that “there was no data breach or no...
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