According to the news cast Foxnews hacker were able to hack into the world bank servers and had access to a lot of sensitive material. "The hackers were able to gain access to the entire World Bank network, including the institution's "highly-restricted treasury unit." The breach comes as World Bank President Robert Zoellick is attempting to position the Bank as a major player in ensuring global financial stability."
The hackers had access to servers that contained "scanned images of staff documents" as well as one that included contract procurement data, according to the FOXNews.com story. The World Bank has been attempting to downplay the situation as well as reassure its staff that no sensitive information had been accessed and that their personal information was not at risk. However, after the breach was discovered, the Bank's senior technology manager was quoted as calling the situation an "unprecedented crisis." Another senior Bank staffer revealed that the FBI had become involved and that the hackers had "access to everything," particularly all of the worldwide information of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank"
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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I followed up on this story, and it sounds like the World Bank is flat out denying that this situation occurred:
ReplyDeleteThey issued this statement about the situation:
"Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments."
Is there a way for the news, investigators, the government or any law-enforcement body to confirm or deny whether the attack actually happened, short of the hacker coming out and saying "I did it" or the WBG admitting it happened? Do attacks like this leave a "paper trail" or is it just a matter of hoping the hacker makes a mistake and gets caught?
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