Report says World Bank servers were breached

Unclear how much data may have been stolen According to a Fox News report, a number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks. The story, the details of which were contested by the World Bank after it ran, quotes unnamed sources as saying the banking group was victimised by at least six major intrusions from the Summer of 2007 through September of this year. At least two of the intrusions appear to have originated from the same batch of IP addresses within China, the report said. The first of the intrusions, from China, was discovered in Sept. 2007 when the FBI apparently informed the bank of the problem which it discovered while it was conducting an unrelated investigation. It apparently... [read full story]