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NSA: Website Crash Was Internal Error, Not Hacker Attack

This Sept. 19, 2007, file photo, shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret ... This Sept. 19, 2007, file photo, shows the National Security Agency building at Fort Meade, Md. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Cailf., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach. MORE LESS
By Catherine Thompson
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October 26, 2013 7:56 a.m.
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The National Security Agency said in a statement late Friday that its website was brought down for a few hours by a glitch, not by rumored hackers.

“NSA.gov was not accessible for several hours tonight because of an internal error that occurred during a scheduled update,” the NSA said in an emailed statement to ABC News. “The issue will be resolved this evening. Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service [DDoS] attack are not true.” 

At least one group claimed responsibility for bringing down the NSA’s website, according to ABC News. NSA.gov appeared to be up and running Saturday.

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Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps)  Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.
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