Pentagon says evicted Russian hackers who penetrated network

The United States on Thursday disclosed a cyber intrusion by Russian hackers who accessed an unclassified US military network this year, in an episode Defense Secretary Ash Carter said showed the growing threat and improving US ability to respond.

Palo Alto: The United States on Thursday disclosed a cyber intrusion by Russian hackers who accessed an unclassified US military network this year, in an episode Defense Secretary Ash Carter said showed the growing threat and improving US ability to respond.

"They`d discovered an old vulnerability in one of our legacy networks that hadn’t been patched," Carter said in prepared remarks to Stanford University, adding the Pentagon managed to rapidly kick the hackers off the network.

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