Pelosi, Boehner Want Probe Of House Web Site Hackers
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader John Boehner Thursday demanded "an immediate and comprehensive assessment" of how computer hackers were able to attack nearly 50 House Web sites Wednesday night after President Obama's State of the Union speech, CongressDaily reported. The House leaders made the request in a letter to House Chief Administrative Officer Daniel Beard. The letter said the intrusions appeared to be linked to a Web site vendor that has had previous security breaches, including one this year involving House sites.
Pelosi and Boehner asked Beard to review security standards for all House vendors and to "take immediate action to protect against breaches of the House firewalls and to ensure website security of all House offices." According to messages left by hackers on some sites, a group calling itself the "Red Eye Crew" claimed responsibility for the infiltration, which left messages saying, in part, "F--- Obama."
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