CBS News investigate reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was accessed remotely without authorization several times in late 2012, the news organization said Friday, citing the results of a an analysis that was carried out by a cyber security firm. Atkisson’s computer was “accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012,” the CBS News spokeswoman said.
The forensic analysis showed the hacker searched for information and copied data before using “sophisticated methods” to remove all traces of the intrusion. “CBS News is taking steps to identify the responsible party and their method of access,” the spokeswoman said.
The allegations of hacking first became public when Attkisson appeared on a Philadelphia radio program in the middle of the allegations that the Justice Department had snooped on reporters, and said that “there could be some relationship between these things and what’s happened to James [Rosen],” the Fox News reporter whose emails were tracked by the Department of Justice, notes Politico. CBS, however, insists it is not accusing the federal government of the intrusion into Attkisson’s computer.
