National Journal Gets Hacked

Atlantic Media employees received word earlier today that “unauthorized individuals” have obtained access to NationalJournal.com. They first discovered this was happening on Feb. 28.

“Upon discovery, we immediately engaged an information security and forensics firm to assess any potential risk to our online readers–and to be able to let everyone within the company know what happened,” wrote Atlantic Media General Counsel Bruce Gottlieb in a company-wide memo to employees.

The Highlights…

1. “First, the unauthorized access appears to have begun on or around February 18th and we were able to revoke the access shortly after the the initial discovery.”

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