Government Technology – A group that called itself Team Digi7al gained access to multiple confidential computer systems, including a Department of Homeland Security database. A computer hacker once told a congressional committee that he could take out the entire Internet in a half-hour.
That was back when the World Wide Web was in its infancy and Google didn’t even exist yet.
No one has succeeded in that endeavor, but hackers have become so sophisticated that people like Edward Snowden and Chinese spies have been able to access some of the most secret files in U.S. government computer vaults.