Cybersecurity

Military shut down private email access after cyberthreat

The military shut down all access to commercial email on Defense Department servers late last week due to an investigation into "spoofed" emails, or emails that don't come from their stated sender.

Commercial web-mail servers like Gmail and Hotmail were blocked for about 48 hours beginning on Thursday, Jeff Capenos, a spokesman for Defense Information Systems Agency, told theWashington Examiner.

"These actions were taken, by direction of USCYBERCOM and the execution of the Defense Information Systems Agency, to ensure the security of the DoDIN. Access to commercial email services was restored during the weekend," Capenos said in a statement.