A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series of coordinated attacks this month, according to four people briefed on a continuing investigation into the crimes.
The hackers infiltrated the networks of the banks, siphoning off gigabytes of data, including checking and savings account information, in what security experts described as a sophisticated cyberattack.
The motivation and origin of the attacks are not yet clear, according to investigators. The F.B.I. is involved in the investigation, and in the past few weeks a number of security firms have been brought in to conduct forensic studies of the penetrated computer networks.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Thursday August 28 2014, @02:59PM
The rest of the article gets more speculative from there.
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(Score: 2) by mtrycz on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:10PM
But that's the very beginning!
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:13PM
Let me speculate on how much the republic would rejoice were those bastards get what was coming to them.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Horse With Stripes on Thursday August 28 2014, @03:43PM
I've read quite a few articles about this and there is a lot of speculation about who did it, why it and what they actually did.
Some say it was Russian hackers, others add it was in retaliation for the recent sanctions, others say <insert some group or some reason here>.
I read a report that said they got employee data as well as account data. Would the employee data be used for future social engineering attacks on JPMC or its clients? Another report said they got in via an employee's computer. So it was a phishing attempt or a lucky watering hole attack?
JPMC has different types of customers. Consumers, mortgages, investments, money management, etc. Which group(s) got snagged and which, if any, got lucky?
It's time to stash money in our mattresses and pay someone to sleep on it while we're not home.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:17PM
You don't get interest on mattress money..
Solve that good and you can ditch the capital markets.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MrGuy on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:21PM
Since 2007, you've gotten pretty much as much interest from a mattress as you've gotten on a savings account.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:40PM
Unless you're a millionaire, the amount of money you earn on interest from a bank is has always been basically negligible.
(Score: 2) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Thursday August 28 2014, @04:28PM
If it's an NYT article, it's going to have anonymous sources:
- "two other people briefed on the matter"
- "one person familiar with the situation"
And a parade of quotes from "security experts".
We definitely know:
- "motivation and origin of the attacks are not yet clear"
- "It was not clear"
- "not yet made that conclusion"
Then we have old stuff rehashed to pad out the article:
- "Earlier this year"
- "in 2007"
Bloomberg's report isn't any better, with more anonymous sources and vagueness.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:23PM
or it was l3tters crippling americans with money that could make a difference in making a "change" in direction the country is going?
maybe more war in syria and later china/japan/korea and more spying is not what some monied americans think they want to support?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Thursday August 28 2014, @05:41PM
Five bucks say something along the lines of "for the lulz".
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(Score: 1) by lentilla on Thursday August 28 2014, @06:06PM
> The F.B.I. is involved in the investigation
It strikes me that providing three-letter-agencies with privileged information may not be the most prudent of actions.
It's a bit like having a locksmith from a national chain visit your house to install a safe. No doubt the individual who installed your safe is an honest individual - who then submits your installation plans to head office. Can you say the same about all the people at head office?