IMF Cyber Attack Believed To Be From Foreign Government
From the archive: published Jun 12, 2011, 15 years ago. Details may have changed since.
The recent cyberattack against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is said to have been caused by a foreign government and not a hacker group as originally believed.
The digital attack at the IMF led to a “large quantity” of data being downloaded from the organizations servers, information which included emails and various saved documents.
In a memo from June 8 which were obtained by Bloomberg it has been learned that “suspicious file transfers” were carried out one week prior and that employees were warned with the following messages:
“At this point, we have no reason to believe that any personal information was sought for fraud purposes.”
Initially IMF workers were warned of virus attacks on June 1 and then on June 9 they were warned of “phishing activities” on their company’s systems.
At this time the foreign government who chose to hack the network has not been revealed.