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Hackers Target FAA Computers

Security breach Continue to don the Internet as hackers were successful in hacking worlds major U.S Federal Aviation Administration , thus revealing the name of around 45000 people prompting the government agency to call up each individual citing the incident and warning them of potential problems that could occur.

Mean while FAA officials had already swung into the action and taking every possibility to prevent such incidents in near future , but at the same time it raises the eye brows and put a direct question mark on present security breach, at the same FAA officials are uncertain about the security breach that took place .
Apart from 48 files targeted by hackers contained personal information for employees and retirees, even though the server was not accessible respect to air traffic control system or other FAA operation systems.

Law enforcement authorities are now investigating the data theft, with full cooperation from the FAA.

Source : tcmagazine.info

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