The NSA.gov website went down late Monday, according to Politico, and was not restored until late Tuesday. The outage, however, came after the posting of a cache of hacking tools purportedly by a group known as "The Shadow Brokers" to its Tumblr account over the weekend. The group claimed to have obtained the malware, supposedly used by the NSA, from The Equation Group, a hacking group with alleged ties to the agency. “All this is to say that there is relatively high confidence that these files contain genuine NSA material,” he said. “Organized cybercrime, hacktivists, other state-sponsored groups will take advantage of such sophisticated tools and use them unscrupulously,” she said.

Source: Fox News August 17, 2016 17:26 UTC