http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9197440/Hacked_Federal_Reserve_network_was_test_only By Robert McMillan IDG News Service November 19, 2010 A June 2010 hacking incident that compromised a network at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland happened on a test system and not the bank's production servers. On Thursday, Lin Mun Poo was charged with hacking the Fed and other U.S. corporations, including payment processor FedComp and an unnamed federal defense contractor. He was arrested on Oct. 21 following a U.S. Secret Service sting. The Secret Service says it found more than 400,000 bank card numbers on Poo's laptop at the time of his arrest. But those numbers apparently did not come from the Fed, which said Friday that none of its sensitive data was compromised during the incident. "We don't process credit cards or debit card information," said June Gates, a spokeswoman with the Federal Reserve of Cleveland. According to Gates, the hacker managed to break into a single Fed test PC that was connected to other test computers. "This is a system that is used to test software and applications with fake data and information," she said. "The incident did not involve our live production system on which we process our work." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Sun Nov 21 2010 - 23:33:28 PST
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