While many Americans watched the wrap-up of the Super Bowl Feb. 3, the band of hackers called “Anonymous” broke into a Web-facing server at the Federal Reserve and pilfered a list of some 4,000 people who work in the banking industry — many of them ranking executives at banks and credit unions. Later in the week, the Fed acknowledged the break-in. “The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product,” a spokesperson told the media.
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Attack on Fed Exposes Weak Patch Maintenance
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. February 11, 2013 07:15 AMWhile many Americans watched the wrap-up of the Super Bowl Feb. 3, the band of hackers called “Anonymous” broke into a Web-facing server at the Federal Reserve and pilfered a list of some 4,000 people who work in the banking industry — many of them ranking executives at banks and credit unions. Later in the week, the Fed acknowledged the break-in. “The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product,” a spokesperson told the media.