Users enjoyed the fake page system Federal Reserve Economic Data.

In message The New York Times, the hackers successfully attacked the Federal reserve system of the United States (performs the functions of the Central Bank). In particular, at the end of April was attacked by the Federal reserve Bank of St. Louis, included in its structure.


the Bank confirmed the attack. According to representatives of institutions, cyber criminals for some time was able to redirect the users the number of Internet Bank services on a specially created page that looks like a Bank website. In particular, users were shown false page system Federal Reserve Economic Data (databases of economic indicators collected by the fed). The website of the Federal reserve Bank did not change.

it is Still unknown who is behind the hacking of financial institutions and the harm to users caused visiting the fake pages, but, according to experts, hackers could gain valuable information, including email addresses and passwords of employees of the Bank. And while on the website of the financial institution reported to users of the services of the Bank with a request to change password.

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