kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

You knew they were up to no good, didn’t you? Well, I did, at least..

kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

A junior staff member of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was recently put on leave for improperly accessing Democratic memos from a shared Senate fileserver. In a statement on the matter, Sen. Hatch said, “I am mortified that this improper, unethical and simply unacceptable breach of confidential files may have occurred on my watch.” A Republican staff member who read the memos claims, however, that there was “no hacking, no stealing, and no violation of any Senate rule”.