FCC Now Says There Is No Documented Analysis of the Cyberattack It Claims Crippled Its Website in May. The Federal Communications Commission intends to keep secret more than 2. The agency claims that it was bombarded in early May with traffic originating from a cloud service, which caused its website to crash temporarily while reportedly receiving more than 1. The agencys chief information officer, David Bray, stated in a letter on May 8 that an analysis had revealed that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial of service attacks, bringing down the comment site and leaving it inaccessible to the public. Those attacks, Bray said, were deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCCs comment system with a high amount of traffic to our commercial cloud host. The FCC now tells Gizmodo, however, that it holds no records of such an analysis ever being performed on its public comment system the agency claims that while its IT staff observed a cyberattack taking place, those observations did not result in written documentation. The agencys comments came in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Gizmodo on May 2. Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Michael ORielly concerning the alleged cyberattack, as well as copies of any records related to the FCC analysis cited in Dr. Brays statement that concluded a DDo. S attack had taken place. A total of 1. Gizmodo on Wednesdaythough none of them shed any light on the events that led to the FCCs website going down. The few emails by FCC staffers that were released to Gizmodo are entirely redacted.
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