FBI Investigating Whether Perry Site Was Hacked
The FBI has opened an inquiry into Gov. Rick Perry's claims that his campaign website was hacked last week during a re-election announcement, according to the Associated Press.
On Tuesday, Perry planned to stream a webcast of his announcement from San Antonio. Instead, many users got a message saying "unable to connect to database server". At the time, campaign spokesman Mark Miner called it a denial-of-service attack.
FBI spokesman Erik Vasys told the AP that "The FBI confirms that it is conducting a preliminary inquiry into the possibility that an intentional intrusion was conducted on the governor's computer from out of state. The FBI considers this a hacking event with unknown origin at this time."
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