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Friday, August 21, 2015

AP: 100s Of White House, Congress, Pentagon Employees Used Adultery Site On The Job

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of U.S. government employees — including some with sensitive jobs in the White House, Congress and law enforcement agencies — used Internet connections in their federal offices to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison, The Associated Press has learned.

The AP traced many of the accounts exposed by hackers back to federal workers. They included at least two assistant U.S. attorneys; an information technology administrator in the Executive Office of the President; a division chief, an investigator and a trial attorney in the Justice Department; a government hacker at the Homeland Security Department and another DHS employee who indicated he worked on a U.S. counterterrorism response team.

Few actually paid for their services with their government email accounts. But AP traced their government Internet connections — logged by the website over five years — and reviewed their credit-card transactions to identify them. They included workers at more than two dozen Obama administration agencies, including the departments of State, Defense, Justice, Energy, Treasury, Transportation and Homeland Security. Others came from House or Senate computer networks.

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This ought to be interesting...can't wait to hear how it will be spun in the media. I predict:
a) outrage - "How dare they hack a private site?"
b) deflection - "This is a deliberate attempt to undermine the Obama administration"
c) dismissal - "It's not that big a deal, really"

Oddly enough, many large corporations have managed to block access to social media and other membership sites. Strange that the government can't seem to manage it.

Anonymous said...

Part of the Obamanation of the nation.

Anonymous said...

Well, at least they weren't screwing us taxpayers this time!

Anonymous said...

isn't this special. hope all names are published.