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The Federal Reserve has confirmed that hackers penetrated the central bank’s security. The hackivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility and has posted 4,000 bank executive credentials obtained from the hack.
Anonymous appears to have published login and private information from over 4,000 American bank executive accounts in the name of its new Operation Last Resort campaign, demanding U.S. computer crime law reform. A spreadsheet has been published on a .gov website allegedly containing login information and credentials, IP addresses, and contact information of American bank executives.
If true, it could be that Anonymous has released banker information that could be connected to Federal Reserve computers, including contact information and cell phone numbers for U.S. bank Presidents, Vice Presidents, COO’s Branch Managers, VP’s and more.
While confirming there was a breach the Federal Reserve played down the significance claiming none of the central bank’s critical operations were affected. Others are disagreeing with that characterization positing that the attack was more substantive given that the database exposed belongs to the St. Louis Fed Emergency Communication System.
ECS is the emergency communications system for seventeen states, with plans to add seven new states this year. ECS estimates it holds 40 percent of America’s state-chartered banks as its users.
The ECS was deployed in 2008 and is the means by which bank supervisory agencies such as the Bank Department and the Federal Reserve Supervision and Regulation functions to communicate with financial institutions during emergencies.
The ECS system enables agencies to establish two-way communications channels with institutions during a crisis to exchange critical information; crises such as natural or man-made disasters (weather, fire, and so on), “chemical biological events or threats,” and “events affecting the financial markets.”
Sensitive information on thousands at state-charter banks and credit unions—including login information, credentials, IP addresses, and contact information—was listed in a spreadsheet and posted to a government site, then announced and claimed by the “Operation Last Resort” faction of Anonymous.
While the url for the download has been shutdown the information is still circulating throughout the web with the full extent of the damage from the hack unknown. Nor is it known if this is the last hack of Operation Last Resort.
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HA ha
In response to David Seaton’s question “What might a revolution look like?”, this is it. Petitions and phone calls haven’t made a dent, but Anonymous just might.
I recently had to explain the term ” hacking ” to my elderly uncle, Samuel. He was especially worried about his banking records and social security #, tax returns, etc., becoming public. I told him not to worry and that our gov’t functioned, much like the Catholic church does, when keeping important information very private. He asked me, ” you mean like in the confessional? ” I told him, ” Not really. It’s more like when the Church suppressed information that the earth revolved around the sun, for three centuries at least. ” ” So ” my uncle exclaimed, ” hacking is really just an electronic exercise to make important people tell the truth, quicker? ” ” Exactly, uncle Samuel, exactly. You got it ” I shouted.
That is priceless. Say ‘Hi” to your uncle.
Im a big gamer and there has been a big issue with security. Had my account comprimised in a SONY game. It was weird because I never did anything that would allow this to happen – for those that dont know there is are many tricks used to scam WoW players. I got my password fixed and moved on.
The a month later it – as you may recall from last year – SONY was hacked in a big way and their network down for a week.
Anyway my point is, I think they were connected and I think the hackers had been in the system for a while and simply blew up to the point SONY had to take public action.
The same is more than likely true here. Chances are the people who found the database or whatever had been snooping around for sometime and Anonymous simply went public to make a point.
Also in the past they released a little info just to show that they were legit in their claims.
I personally just wish Anonymous or Wikileaks or someone would drop a real bomb – no not a literal bomb. In lieu of any “bombshell” info or game changer a lot of these incidents just come off as pranks.
I guess I want them to get a fucking agenda.
lol… my elderly mom thinks people dig thru the trash so they can steal her money. And she has become OCD about shredding. Ive tried to explain that they would just steal it from the mailbox but most of her info is more easily stolen electronically.
I bet your uncle does the same thing as my mom. More of less any fool can call her and ask her for all kinds of info and she just answers. Ive tried to explain that she should only give info about anything to people she has called herself.
Is the attached video enough of an agenda for you?
Sorry to hear about that. My mother just past away about a year ago. She was the nicest, kindest Socialist you’d ever want to meet. Towards the end of her 96 years on earth many people could not say enough good things about her politics, her values, her character or her consistency of action. I think that’s the whole point of Socialism, isn’t it?
One of the anonymous people, XEROFLUX, said they doubted that the first hack was real (i.e conterintel false flag op).
I wonder if this isn’t another fake excuse to get an even bigger budget for a “covert” agency or an excuse for censorship. We’ll have to see if any real harmful information was actually released.
In the earlier days I had a firewall that recorded hack attempts (pinging for open ports). I’d get up in the morning and there would have been a dozen attempts every night. There was a trace option on the failed attempts. Most of those attempts originated around Crystal City, which is the internet hub right next to the Pentagon.
The American people deserve a hell of a lot more transparency regarding use of their money and their supposed “mandates” from the voting booth than they have ever had.
That is all I am going to say about this story.