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The FBI confirms a “malicious cyber incident” on its network.

The last time we heard about hackers breaching FBI computers was in 2021, when they sent thousands of fake emails.

There aren’t as many details available about this incident that the FBI says has been contained, but CNN reports, based on two anonymous sources, “FBI officials believe the incident involved an FBI computer system used in investigations of images of child sexual exploitation”

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