Admiral: No evidence of hacking in McCain, Fitzgerald collisions

August 31, 2017

Stars and Stripes:

Navy investigators have found no evidence that cyberintrusions played a part in the serious collisions of two guided-missile destroyers in the past three months, the Navy’s chief of naval operations said Wednesday.

During a live-streaming Facebook all-hands call, Adm. John Richardson said he was aware of the “thread of conversation” that cyberattacks could be involved in the collisions of the USS John S. McCain on Aug. 21 and the USS Fitzgerald on June 17.

“I will tell you that we have given that an amazing amount of attention,” Richardson said. “It is sort of a reality of our current situation that part of any kind of investigation or inspection is going to have to take a look at the computer, the cyber — you know, the informational warfare aspect — of our business.

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