NSA website downtime blamed on internal error

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NSA website downtime

The National Security Agency’s website went down for several hours Friday, but the US spy service known for hacking into computer networks blamed the outage on a technical mistake.

 

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The National Security Agency says its website nsa.gov was inaccessible for several hours during a scheduled update.

The agency says an internal error in the system caused the problem.

There had been speculation on the Internet that the online site had been hit with a denial-of-service attack, but the agency said that was not true.

A denial-of-service attack is an attempt by outsiders to make a network unavailable to its intended users.

The NSA said the problem would be resolved Friday night.