Moonlight Maze

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Moonlight Maze is the U.S. government's designation given to a series of alleged coordinated attacks on American computer systems in 1999. The attacks were said to have been carried out by hackers within the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was claimed that these hackers had obtained large stores of data that might include classified naval codes and information on missile guidance systems, though it was not certain that any such information had in fact been compromised.

On September 20, 1999, Newsweek printed a story on Moonlight Maze that was written by Gregory Vistica. It was entitled " 'We're in the middle of a cyberwar' ", based on a quote from then-Deputy Secretary of Defense John Hamre. [1] However, this was refuted shortly thereafter in an article by Federal Computer Week's Dan Verton [2].

The attack has only been traced to Russia and it is unknown whether the attack orginated from there.

[edit] See also

• Titan Rain
• Cyberwarfare

[edit] External links

• John Hamre Watch announced: Still more secret cyberwar
• The Moonlight Maze of secret cyberwar gossip
• Russians Seem To Be Hacking Into Pentagon
• Text of James Adams' testimony to the Committee on Governmental Affairs that includes a summary of Moonlight Maze
• Summary of Moonlight Maze by television series Frontline