Sophisticated cyberattack breaches IMF computers

[RandomAccess]

The International Monetary Fund has come under a ‘serious and sophisticated’ cyberattack.
The scale of the hacking is still unknown - but the confidential information held by the IMF has the potential to move markets.
Should it fall into the wrong hands and become public, the results could trigger political and economic chaos.

reuters.com/article/2011/06/ … 0720110611
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … ttack.html
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n … ack12.html

The IMF might be about to have a WikiLeaks moment!

[Enoch_Root]

A lot of dirty linen could be put on public display if the hackers release the “large quantities of data” into the public domain.

noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLrLliQKYyA4&pos=8

[yoganmahew]

Oh no, have they got the code to the DoF credit card? Will they go on a luxury spending spree? Will anyone notice the extra spending?

[Enoch_Root]

No, but they might notice what they spent it on.

[jcsmith]

“State based attack”. That’s mostly code for China these days. Wonder what they want to see in the IMF files?

[BoyRacer]

IMF State-Backed Cyber-Attack Follows Hacks of Lab, G-20 → bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-1 … state.html

The data theft from International Monetary Fund computers by hackers said to be linked to a foreign government follows incidents against companies and governments that illustrate the growth of cyber-attacks as an espionage tool.

The IMF hack resulted in the loss of a “large quantity” of data, including documents and e-mails, according to a person familiar with the incident, a security expert who declined to be identified because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the subject. This year, the Group of 20 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have also come under cyber-attack.

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Unless the data was deleted, I doubt it was “lost”. Would it not be more correct to say
"The IMF hack resulted in the exposure of a “large quantity” of data, including documents and e-mails, according to a person familiar with the incident, a security expert who declined to be identified because he wasn’t authorized to speak on the subject

[Inis_Man]

Oh no! they didn’t get DSK’s little black book, did they???