A story that everybody fear it might happen someday. It hit us all cross the country today including the ABC News. A computer attack jamming in boxes with hundreds of spam emails. The same story at company after company across America, even at NASA, the virus's racing around the globe but for a while the firewalls and tech experts were no match for the hackers who launched it. Pierre Thomas has been looking into it.
What happened, Pierre?
Diana, the attack targeting the email systems of government agencies and major corporations including ABC News began this afternoon. Among the companies and agencies it hit, NASA Wells Fargo Comcast and Procter & Gamble, it was a Trojan Horse style computer virus, racing at lightning 3 speed through databases, luring in email users by posing as a message from one of your colleagues.
Then the virus name "Here you have" offers a link that was just one problem. If you click on the link, the virus takes over your computer and starts sending out more emails under your name. Diana, I get hit with hundreds of these emails in a matter of seconds and I bet you did too. This appears to be a worldwide assault and people across the globe have been using Twitter to alert others about the virus, Diana.
And homeland security are looking into it tonight, thank you, Pierre.
