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FBI Blaming Hacks on Anonymous Campaign

NASA among the agencies targeted

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Attackers with ties to Anonymous have waged a year-long hacking campaign that's successfully exploited numerous US government systems.

So read an FBI memo, distributed Thursday, which said that the group of attackers gained access to government systems via SQL injection attacks, as well as by exploiting vulnerabilities in outdated versions of the website development platform Adobe ColdFusion, Reuters first reported.