Jun 12, 2021,06:00am EDT|170 views
U.S. Army Hacked By 40 Military And Civilian Hackers In Six Weeks
Davey WinderSenior Contributor
Across six weeks, starting in January 2021, a team of hackers described as top-tier military and civilian operatives took aim at military assets belonging to the U.S. Department of the Army and the U.S. Defense Digital Services. These assets included a number of army.mil and westpoint.edu applications. The operation was a success, and that's no bad thing because the hackers were participating in the third Hack the Army event to have taken place since 2016.
Hack the Army 3.0
Hack the Army 3.0 was a joint venture between the hacker-powered vulnerability discovery platform HackerOne and the targets mentioned above. Inviting hackers onto your networks may seem like a bad idea, but actually, it's precisely the opposite.
You have to remember that while many cybercrimes involve hacking, that doesn't mean all hackers are criminals. In this case, the hacker-powered event was part of a bug bounty scheme developed to uncover previously unknown vulnerabilities 'hiding in plain sight' so they can be fixed before adversaries are able to exploit them and weaken national security.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2021/06/12/us-army-hacked-by-40-military-and-civilian-hackers-in-six-weeks/?sh=668e88337d68
