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The Guardian - 2/06/13, Reuters in Washington and Boston

US central bank confirms intrusion after hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen 4,000 bankers' details

The US Federal Reserve has admitted its computer systems were hacked.

The US Federal Reserve has admitted its computer systems were hacked. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty
 

The US Federal Reserve bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous was claimed to have stolen details of more than 4,000 bank executives.

"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a spokeswoman for the US central bank said.

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