US weather agency confirms cyberattack

Four websites run by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been compromised in recent weeks, the agency said on Wednesday.

NOAA, the part of the U.S. Department of Commerce that includes the National Weather Service, “deflected” the attacks, the agency said in a statement. Some services were down for unscheduled maintenance but were restored as of Wednesday afternoon, the agency said.

“These effects did not prevent us from delivering forecasts to the public,” NOAA said in the statement. The agency’s investigation of the breach is not finished, the agency said.

Chinese hackers were suspected in the attack, according to a Washington Post story, but a NOAA spokesman declined to talk about the source of the attack.

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