It’s been over five months since the FMCSA medical examiner database went offline without warning. Questions have been swirling about why the site went down and what information may have been compromised. Now the FMCSA has admitted that a malware attack was responsible for the outage.
According to a report in Overdrive, the FMCSA has confirmed that “malware was introduced to the server,” but the agency claims that the malware wasn’t “activated.”
When the outage was first announced, the FMCSA claimed that there had been “unauthorized access” to the system. The agency claimed that the attempt to compromise the system was unsuccessful and said in a statement that no personal information was exposed to the hacker.
The Agency is standing by that claim, reiterating now that no personal information was accessed or stolen. In fact, they now claim that it wasn’t the hackers who took the website and registry offline. Instead, Overdrive reports that the FMCSA took it down themselves in order to be able to develop a more secure system.
When that system is expected to come online though is not yet known. The FMCSA hasn’t given any indication how their progress is coming on the database. Last week however the FMCSA announced that it would be pushing back the goal of combining driver CDLs and medical certificates until June of 2021.
Source: overdrive, truckersnews, ccj, tcicapital, mtac, overdrive, truckersreport
Driver says
Typical.
Willie Perry says
Just goes to show you no computer is viruses proof .
SAMUEL LEE says
They prosecute the industry and the mere appearance of impropriety disqualified.
C. Spencer says
5 Months of lies and deceit!
How does the FMCSA get away with this rubbish?
Most of you are just too ignorant or lazy to question this internally self-appointed authoritative organization.
Truth is that they were aware of the breach and infestation in under 24 hours.
It just took 5 months to implement there own programming alterations in their software to cover up the fact they gave this information to a “Shadow” organization for their own future devious agenda.
And, what gives them a “right” to not inform the public immediately of this publicly funded organization?
Come on citizens, use your “smart phones” to make you smart, to gain valuable knowledge of our governments secret agendas and pretending it’s not happening.
The big rug is being pulled right out from under all societies, that happen to be lower than the highest upper class!
Do not be distracted by all the parlor tricks…”Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! I, I, I am the great Oz!”.
Yeah, Right.
jim tomblin says
Sounds like u got issues. Good luck….
Instagram: MuthaTrucka69 says
Sounds to me like the FMCSA doesn’t even know how to use their own ELDs.. It’s not their fault though. They were forced to get them before they could get familiar with how they worked. Now it’s going to cost them even more money to fix the problem than it would have if they’d just sorted it out properly to begin with. Poor FMCSA, they always get the short end of the stick.
Road Hopper says
This is only be beginning. Colorado is having to rebuild their entire DOR/DOT website because of hackers. They won’t be alone. These geniuses in our govenrment were so happy to be able to control everything we do, that they’ve made us vulnerable. Just wait until law enforcement systems start getting jacked with viruses, when they plug in to our ELDs to download our logs. It’s going to get interesting.
jim tomblin says
Computers…let’s go back to the pen, paper and CB…and limited government regulations…like me, “old school.”
Bethany Tucker says
I understand having to have the ELD mandate for safety concerns but I agree with you. Pen and Paper and CB would make most of these issues disappear and we wouldn’t have drivers quitting to become owner operators. Its hitting the little trucking companies hard.