A new congressional report detailed that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has been hacked by foreign agencies repeatedly from 2010 up until 2015. It is now clear from whistle-blowers the agency actively tried to cover up some of the attacks that affected higher level individuals within the FDIC.
From the International Business Times:
According to a damning report compiled by the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, “advanced persistent threat” (APT) hackers compromised 12 agency work stations and 10 servers in three separate cases in between October 2010 and April 2013.
The hacks, alongside a number of internal security breaches involving past staffers, were never declared to law enforcement or the US Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), the authority that manages cyberattack responses in the US, the probe claims.
What’s worse, evidence from a number of FDIC whistle-blowers indicates the agency actively worked to cover up breaches impacting high-level officials – including the former chairman, chief of staff and general counsel, whose computers were all reportedly targeted.
Full story available on the International Business Times:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-officials-accused-covering-chinese-state-sponsored-hack-fdic-computers-1570675
