They did not even bother to inform the concerned authorities, making it a full fledged cover up.
In a statement released Wednesday, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen acknowledged the hacks and said incident response began immediately.
He said all systems were working again and that forecasts were accurately delivered to the public.
Smullen declined to answer questions beyond his statement, citing an investigation into the attack.
Wolf has a long-standing interest in cyber security and asked NOAA about the incident.
NOAAs National Ice Center Web Site also was down for a week in late October.
The two-day outage skewed the accuracy of National Weather Service long-range forecasts slightly.
About the hack
The hacks might not have any connection to the data the systems contain.
The Chinese are stealing us blind.
Commercial interests also were affected by the breach.
This is the 8th incident in the recent weeks which has a Chinese digital footprint on the attack.
source: www.techworm.net
