Hackers hit IMF with 'sophisticated cyberattack', reports claim
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has suffered a major hack, according to media reports this weekend.
The organisation, already making the headlines following the arrest and resignation of its boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn (whose alleged perpetration of a sexual assault has itself been used as springboard for malware attacks), attempts to oversee financial crises around the world and promote economic development.
According to a New York Times report, senior sources within the IMF confirmed to the newspaper that the organisation had suffered a "very major breach"and was deemed serious enough to cut a computer link between the IMF and its near neighbour in downtown Washington, the World Bank.
A World Bank spokesman is reported by the New York Times to say that the disconnection was taken out of “an abundance of caution” until the nature of the attack on the IMF, was understood. The link was apparently quickly restored, and no attack on the World Bank is said to have occurred.
