Hack Attack: World Bank Under Cyber Siege In ‘Unprecedented Crisis’ - With Video
Is it just me? Or does it seem like the whole world is in a whirlwind?
The World Bank Group’s computer network  one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation  has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.
It is still not known how much information was stolen. But sources inside the bank confirm that servers in the institution’s highly-restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April. Invaders also had full access to the rest of the bank’s network for nearly a month in June and July.
In total, at least six major intrusions  two of them using the same group of IP addresses originating from China  have been detected at the World Bank since the summer of 2007, with the most recent breach occurring just last month.
In a frantic midnight e-mail to colleagues, the bank’s senior technology manager referred to the situation as an “unprecedented crisis.” In fact, it may be the worst security breach ever at a global financial institution. And it has left bank officials scrambling to try to understand the nature of the year-long cyber-assault, while also trying to keep the news from leaking to the public.
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“As previously reported in mid-July,” CIO De Poerck and a senior bank treasury official wrote in an August announcement to employees, “we would like to reassure you that there is no evidence that Bank staff personal information is at risk from the recent external attempts.”
It’s unclear how that statement squares with an internal memo to De Poerck a month earlier revealing that a sensitive Human Resources server “that contains scanned images of staff documents” had been successfully breached. De Poerk declined to comment to FOX News about any of these details.
But according to one disgruntled bank staffer, “We don’t even have an internal search engine that works.”
The truly alarming fact, however, is that someone  or many people  seem to know their way around the bank’s most valuable resource very well, even though they aren’t supposed to be there at all.
(Fox)
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