Federal Reserve hacked [1]

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 [2] bank has confirmed one of its internal websites was broken into by hackers after the hacktivist group Anonymous [3] 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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