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Barr: 'Severe' consequences if foreign government behind HHS cyberattack during coronavirus outbreak
[Washington Examiner] Attorney General William Barr vowed there would be "severe" consequences if a foreign country was behind the cyberattack against the Health and Human Services Department's website on Sunday or behind the false coronavirus rumors swirling in recent days.The HHS website was hit by a denial-of-service cyberattack on Sunday night, apparently designed to disrupt efforts to combat the spread of the growing COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. "When you’re dealing with something like a denial-of-service attack on HHS during a pandemic, that’s a very grave action for another country to take," Barr told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "So, if it is another country doing this, I’m sure the ramifications will be severe." Barr, "Our primary role right now is to investigate" and that "the FBI is very active trying to determine who is responsible for these things." The attorney didn’t take a guess on which foreign nation might be responsible. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-03-18 |
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