15/07/2011 10:43
Pentagon admits suffering major cyber attack
The Pentagon has admitted it suffered a major cyber attack in which thousands of files were taken by foreign hackers, BBC reported.
In a speech at National Defense University in Washington, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said about 24,000 files containing Pentagon data were stolen from a defense industry computer network in March, marking one of the largest cyber attacks in US history.
"We have a pretty good idea who did it,” Mr Lynn said.
Previous cyber attacks have been blamed on China or Russia.