The hackers wrote, “This is only small part of Iran's cyber ability.”
A former senior US Government National Security official tells @LelandVittert, “It has the feel of being pretty insignificant...they just hacked a website that most Washington insiders don’t know existed...Honestly, this is not very hard...this website had very weak security. “
@LelandVittert The source suspects this hack was not done by the Iranian government but instead by a sympathizer or proxy group.
Chief PR Officer for the U.S. Government Publishing Office tells Fox News: “An intrusion was detected on GPO’s FDLP website, which has been taken down. GPO’s other sites are fully operational. We are coordinating with the appropriate authorities to investigate further.”
A spokesperson for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tells @JacquiHeinrich: “At this time, there is no confirmation that this was the action of Iranian state-sponsored actors...CISA is monitoring the situation with FDLP and our federal partners."
