World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis"

JagsLive sends in a Fox News report on large-scale and possibly ongoing security breaches at the World Bank. "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. In a frantic midnight e-mail to colleagues, the bank's senior technology manager referred to the situation as an 'unprecedented crisis.' In fact, it may be the worst security breach ever at a global financial institution. And it has left bank officials scrambling to try to understand the nature of the year-long cyber-assault, while also trying to keep the news from leaking to the public." Update: 10/11 01:15 GMT by T : Massive spyware infestations might be good cause to reevaluate the TCO of non-Windows systems on the desktop.

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does anyone else think

[nimbius]

its suspicious that fox news, arguably one of the least reputable news agencies on the planet, has been tapped as the groundbreaking authority on this story?

wondering if this will come with a CERN alert any time soon.

Re:so the chinese orchestrated the market meltdown

[megamerican]

The people who are delusional are the ones who think you can fix the problem of inflation with more inflation.

There has been talk about closing down the international markets and starting a new Bretton Woods type agreement. Of course this new agreement has probably been written and just waiting for this crisis, just like the PATRIOT ACT was written before 9/11 and the current bailout bill was written back in March.

It is great to know that the institutions that helped create this mess are now the ones who will pose as the saviors of it. If you think that its accidental then you may be the one who is delusional. There was plenty of people warning about this crisis for many years (click the link in my signature to find them). Those people aren't some genius prophets, they just stated the obvious.

Remember that the primary function of government is to pretend to fail.