October 16, 2008

World Bank computers hacked

It would appear that not even the World Bank has escaped the turmoil within the banking sector; it turns out that a while back around eighteen of the organisations servers, a serious breach of security indeed by anyone’s standards.

But as normal the with things like this the World Bank are praising themselves on the fact that nothing was stolen, well how would they know, cyber criminals rarely steal cash, the goal would be to steal information.

No hacker would get into eighteen servers without having a little look around for something interesting or if they were in intent on causing some mischief they could well have left a small piece of code behind which is still sitting there collecting data or maybe not whatever makes the happy.

Source [USA Today]