The FCC lied to Congress about an alleged cyberattack and didn’t come clean until now

The FCC lied to Congress about an alleged cyberattack and didn’t come clean until now

6 years ago
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/8/17664386/fcc-net-neutrality-ddos-attack-congress-doj

It’s been over a year since Ajit Pai and the Federal Communications Commission claimed that the agency’s comment filing system was subjected to a cyberattack during the height of last year’s net neutrality debate. But after waves of speculation from both the public and Congress, the commission has finally come clean. According to a report published by the agency’s inspector general yesterday, there was no distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, and this relaying of false information to Congress prompted a deeper investigation into whether senior officials at the FCC had broken the law.