{"id":7372,"date":"2026-03-06T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:40:03","slug":"fbi-wiretap-system-tapped-by-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=7372","title":{"rendered":"FBI wiretap system tapped by hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified a suspected incident on a network used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/05\/politics\/fbi-investigating-cyber-breach-critical-surveillance-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI acknowledged the incident in a statement to CNN, saying, \u201cThe FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agency is not expanding on its statement but there will be concerns that this an attack prompted by a state agency, such as China. Last year, the bureau and the US Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3830549\/fbi-and-cisa-warn-about-continuing-attacks-by-chinese-ransomware-group-ghost.html\">warned of continuing attacks by Chinese ransomware group<\/a>, Ghost, on US organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has faced questions about the security of its IT systems before. In 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/1497841\/fbi-infrastructure-less-secure-than-your-corporate-network.html\">a report from the Government Accounting Office<\/a>, found that the FBI\u2019s infrastructure was less secure than the average company\u2019s\u00a0 and in 2012, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/2276164\/hackers-leak-1-million-apple-udids-allegedly-stolen-from-fbi-laptop-2.html\">an agent\u2019s laptop was allegedly subjected to a hacker\u2019s attack<\/a>, leading to claims that one million Apple UDIDs had been stolen.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau will certainly have tightened up procedures since then, although <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/17\/politics\/fbi-cyber-incident-computer-network\">CNN also reported an alleged security breach<\/a> at the FBI\u2019s field office in February 2023.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has identified a suspected incident on a network used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, CNN reported. The FBI acknowledged the incident in a statement to CNN, saying, \u201cThe FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}