Hackers forced State Department to replace 30,000 employee credentials in 2014

Published February 26, 2015 12:14pm ET



Log-in credentials for an estimated 30,000 State Department employees had to be replaced after unidentified hackers breached the agency’s unclassified communications network last November.

The incident raised questions on the severity of the breach, which State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki downplayed by pointing to the “thousands of attacks” that pepper the agency’s systems every day.

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