Hack of Government Records Discovered
BLACKWELL: Nearing the bottom of the hour now. The FBI is investigating a major computer breach that may have allowed hackers to spy on U.S. government and private company's encrypted communications.</s>WALKER: The breach at Juniper Networks happened three years ago but was only discovered a few weeks back. CNN Justice Reporter Evan Perez broke the news. What can you tell us, Evan?</s>EVAN PEREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Victor, Amara, one U.S. government official says it is akin to stealing a master key to every government building. Juniper Network says that someone was able to break into its systems and alter source code for an important piece of software. This means that sophisticated hackers could use a backdoor to spy on communications that is supposed to be protected by encryption. Juniper makes routers and computer equipment that is widely used by private companies and U.S. government agencies like the Pentagon and Treasury and the FBI. U.S. officials tell me that they believe this is the work of foreign government hackers. The breach occurred three years ago and Juniper only discovered the vulnerability in the last couple of weeks. Juniper issued a statement that once they identified the vulnerabilities, they worked to develop security patches to protect the equipment that was effected. The FBI has now launched an investigation, and because of this sophistication, officials say that only a handful of governments have the capability to do this, and Russia and China are at the top of the list. Amara, Victor?</s>BLACKWELL: All right, Evan, thank you so much. President Obama stopped in San Bernardino late last night for an emotional visit with the family members of the victims of the massacre there several weeks ago. We talked to the partner of one of the victims. What he told us, that's coming up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're not shot, sir, get out of the car.</s>BLACKWELL: This is a new video in that California shooting case where the officer says he did not shoot the DUI suspect.