Former FCC Official May Have Lied About Hackers Attacking FCC Website During Net Neutrality Fight
August 07, 2018
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Last May, former FCC Chief Information Officer (CIO) David Bray claimed that the agency was "a victim to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS attack, a scheme in which hackers overwhelm a target site with fake traffic" during the net neutrality fight.
It looks like an upcoming report from the FCC's inspector general will dispute Bray's (DDoS) claims that a cyberattack hit the agency's comment section in May 2017. Instead, it appears that concerned citizens, not bots or fake people, who wanted to show their support net neutrality made the FCC website slow down.