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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!U.S. officials told the paper there was no evidence that militants were able to interfere with the drones' flights. The signals have since been secured.
Members of Congress asked the administration to quickly hire a White House cyberchief, a position announced by President Obama six months ago.
The vulnerability of the video feeds had been known by the military since the 1990s but no action was taken until this year.
"It outrages me that this vulnerability was known since the 1990s, and they never fixed the problem," Rep. James Langevin, a member of the intelligence and armed services committees, told the Journal. "It makes them look like a bunch of Keystone Kops. Who else had access to these video feeds?"
Langevin said the cybersecurity issue would be taken up by Congress in the new year.
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