The Federal Reserve has confirmed that there is a compromised web servers. The confirmation follows after Anonymous, say that four of personal data of employees of the central bank and related organizations had published.
According to the Federal Reserve have strangers a short time had access to an internal web server. This would be an exploit in a software product from an unnamed internet company are exploited, writes Reuters. The hackers would not, however, crucial data have captured, so claims the Federal Reserve. The published information is likely to be the result of a list with personal data that were intended to make contact during a natural disaster. The list would not contain passwords.
Last Sunday, after ‘members’ of the los-fixed hackersgroepering Anonymous that they are the systems of the Federal Reserve were invaded. They also say that data from approximately four thousand staff members published, as well as data from related organizations.
Anonymous has in recent weeks his arrows during ‘operation Last Resort’ aimed at the websites of various Us government organizations. Among other things, the web site ussc.gov was gedefaced. It claimed the activists in the coming time, more ‘sensitive’ data on the internet will publish. Also the ministry of energy received the visit of hackers.
Reason for the action is the recent suicide of internetactivist Aaron Swartz. He would have bet for internet freedom. Swartz was prosecuted for hacking and downloading of millions of documents from an MIT database. Also various websites of the MIT, in the past week attacked.