Hardly surprising, the Federal Government has never been able to keep their systems updated or secured. A report through Homeland Security released about Homeland Security, Dept of Education, Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Housing...and others shows the same problems with some systems that are 20 - 35 years old. https://www.hsdl.org/c/substandard-federal-cybersecurity-puts-america-at-risk/
Going dark from encryption? No from obsolete IT equipment, some still running programs written in COBOL which is hard to find programmers for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
