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State Department’s unclassified email systems hacked

November 17, 2014 creative around-the-same, classified-data, department-shut, down-portions, harry, national-flag, shadow-falling, time-as-white, victim, were-the-victim, white-house

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Monday said its unclassified email systems were the victim of a cyber attack in recent weeks, around the same time as White House systems were breached, but no classified data was compromised. The department shut down portions of its unclassified system over the weekend to improve its security but said they should be back online shortly, though it declined to predict when.