access was simple. it was through a targeted phishing attack. someone actually tricked someone into providing user name and password so anyone who wanted to gain access was blocked from doing so. this is what's known in the cyber world is a denial of service attack. it was a different way to get in rather than attacking ft. knox, you go into the loans. >> was any secure information accessed when they were able to get in there? >> no, this is something the new york times was clear to say it wasn't the integrity of the website compromised, it was people's ability to get to the site that was compromised. service is being restored slowly. other news sites have been targeted including "the washington post" and here at cnn, again, cnn they told us we asked, they said no, it wasn't the site that was compromised, just people's ability shortly to get there. >> scary enough. deb thanks so much for the update. coming up in our next hour we'll talk with senator tim cain