All emails now missing? 'Suspicious cyber activity' discovered in White House network

Soon after learning that the Department of Homeland Security is boosting security at government buildings in response to what it says are terrorist calls for homegrown attacks on government officials and law enforcement officers, we’re learning that there has been “suspicious” activity within the White House’s computer network. CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta is on the story.

WH official on suspicious cyber activity in WH computer network: "we took immediate measures to evaluate and mitigate the activity."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 28, 2014

WH on suspicious cyber activity: "Our actions are ongoing, and some have resulted in some temporary outages and loss of connectivity"

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 28, 2014

WH official on who's behind cyber activity: "still assessing the activity of concern.. not in a position to provide any additional details”

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 28, 2014

WH official: "Our computers and systems have not been damaged, though some elements of the unclassified network have been affected."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 28, 2014

Official reports some cyber outages but says WH computers and systems not damaged.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 28, 2014

Whew, at least the systems weren’t damaged.

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