The IMF last month hacked and the attack was coming from a government, claims a person familiar with the cyber attack. There would be large amounts of data by the hackers captured, including e-mails from the IMF.
The hack at the IMF would be ‘advanced’ and ‘large-scale’, the message, the New York Times. The hackers would have a few months access to systems they have had. The attack would Wednesday communicated internally, but the financial institution still has no official statement released. The IMF would still do research to the extent of the hack, but according to reports are, in any case, large quantities of e-mails captured.
“Last week, we have a suspicious file transfers occurred, and from the subsequent investigation, it appears that a quality of the Fund has been invaded and used to access other systems to get”, was chief information officer Jonathan Palmer know in an e-mail to employees. According to him, there is no evidence that personal data were sought for fraud, to commit, and he encourages employees to be alert.
The world Bank would as a precaution, the digital connection with the IMF, which is used to share information, have been lost. A person familiar with the hack claims, according to news agency Bloomberg that a government is behind the cyberattack, but is not known to the government. The data that the hackers have obtained may be very sensitive. If agreements with countries in financial difficulties on the street or in the wrong hands end up, this may become a huge political consequences.