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Almost two weeks after an Advanced Persistent Threat forced the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to go offline, Internet access and most public websites have been restored.

“Access to the Internet from PNNL’s network computers was re-enabled late Thursday afternoon,” said lab spokesman Geoff Harvey. “Additionally, most of PNNL’s external websites are operational,” although a handful of sites and systems remained down as additional security measures are being put in place.

Harvey said no classified or sensitive information was compromised, although there was what he described as “minimal exfiltration” of non-sensitive documents, many of which already were publicly available.

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