Feds Delete ca.gov Domain during Porn Hack

Posted on October 5, 2007
Filed Under Data Theft & Security Breaches, Security News |

The U.S. government took down ALL of the state of California’s government Internet sites this week in order to thwart an attack on Marin County’s transportation authority site. Visitors to the county agency were being redirected to a porn site.

In their haste the government staff apparently deleted the ca.gov domain by accident and destroyed forensic evidence, it appears there was no plan in place to adequately handle such an incident, the site is now back online and the red faced feds are back at their desks.

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