Obama and McCain Computers Hacked

Obama and McCain had their campaign computers hacked into and files stolen this summer.

US Government Cyber geeks say the attacks originated from China.

According to Newsweek, Government agents told both campaigns a "serious amount of files" were copied from their systems.

Both campaigns were told the attacks were happening earlier this year.

Both campaigns had to hire private security companies to deal with the hacking attacks after the White House told the Obama campaign they had a serious problem that had to be dealt with.

Neither campaign had much to say.

I just think it is not unusual to see any kind of high profile company or organization to have to deal with these kind of cyber attacks.

I'm just amazed that both campaigns were not more vigilant with their computer security.

You would have to think that both campaigns would at least be concerned with the other campaign attempting to access information.

Maybe the only reason they were so lax is that both organizations, although large, are also temporary and there was just no computer security plans in place.

It can take large companies years to develop network and computer security procedures.

I would be curious to know how all the IT functions of these campaigns are run.

I would thing it would be best that the job would be outsourced to someone rather than setting up an internal IT operation for such a temporary organization.