This Fox News story shows that China remains a threat to the free world. By hacking into the World bank this summer, they are demonstrating unrelenting aggression.
World Bank Under Cyber Siege in 'Unprecedented Crisis'
Friday , October 10, 2008
By Richard Behar
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.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
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