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Saturday, December 3, 2005; Page A10
Computer Glitch Causes Delays at Ports of Entry
Inbound travelers at more than 400 U.S. ports of entry were delayed yesterday afternoon when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection national computer network failed for about two hours, a Department of Homeland Security official said.
Border agents switched to local systems, but travelers encountered delays at airports, seaports and border crossings nationwide after the breakdown at 2 p.m. Eastern time.
"There was absolutely no time where the processing stopped, or that there were any kind of security breaches going on," said department spokesman Jarrod Agen. "The technology people say they don't see anything intentional. . . . It just looks like a computer glitch."
Interruptions in the sophisticated system occur "from time to time," Agen said, but the two-hour disconnection was the most severe in about a year.
Saturday, December 3, 2005; Page A10
Computer Glitch Causes Delays at Ports of Entry
Inbound travelers at more than 400 U.S. ports of entry were delayed yesterday afternoon when the U.S. Customs and Border Protection national computer network failed for about two hours, a Department of Homeland Security official said.
Border agents switched to local systems, but travelers encountered delays at airports, seaports and border crossings nationwide after the breakdown at 2 p.m. Eastern time.
"There was absolutely no time where the processing stopped, or that there were any kind of security breaches going on," said department spokesman Jarrod Agen. "The technology people say they don't see anything intentional. . . . It just looks like a computer glitch."
Interruptions in the sophisticated system occur "from time to time," Agen said, but the two-hour disconnection was the most severe in about a year.
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