Amy Kudwa, a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman, said that the agency was aware of the attacks and that it had issued a notice to federal departments and agencies, as well as to other partner organizations, advising them of steps to take to help mitigate attacks.
Michael McConnell, who works with San Diego's homeless community, said Wednesday that some people he's spoken with were aware of the attacks — and were afraid and angry.
Officers said that in some cases, the parents may not have been aware of the attack at the time.
Officials with Nato's International Security Assistance Force said they were aware of the attack but couldn't immediately provide any details.
"I am sure many of you are aware of the attack by the Mail on Sunday on a Ukip councillor this weekend," Farage wrote.
A spokeswoman for Google, which makes the Chrome browser, said the company was aware of the attack and has already disabled the browser extensions that allowed it.
Through Sabu, the FBI were aware of the attack on Stratfor's servers even as it was ongoing – and seemingly did not inform the company.
The United Nations maintains a military base approximately 20 miles from the villages, but United Nations officials said they did not know if the peacekeepers there were aware of the attack as it occurred.
Experts tracked the spores and concluded that had this been anthrax, several hundred thousand people might have died -- although no one would have been aware of the attack until the victims developed fevers four days later.
According to a survey of voters in Rajasthan by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, a think-tank in Delhi, only 46% were aware of the attack in Mumbai, and only 1% said it had made them switch their vote to the BJP.
