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Hackers are Attacking Observatories

Why would anybody want to hack an observatory? That's the question facing IT professionals at NOIRLab after somebody tried to crack the computer systems at Gemini North in Hawai'i. The cyber break-in and ongoing investigation by NOIRLab and National Science Foundation experts affected observations and operations in Hawai'i and Chile.

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