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United States Federal Reserve

United States Federal Reserve Data Breach (2013)

United States Federal Reserve

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Disclosed

February 1, 2013

4802 days ago

Records

Undisclosed

Confirmed

Root Cause

Hacking

Industry

Finance

Description

The hacking group known as Anonymous claimed responsibility for a hack of the Alabama Criminal Justice Center and indicated that they had access to US Federal Reserve servers. Some internal documents were also exposed. The hack attack was a response to the US Federal Reserve's reaction, or failure to react, to the February 4 hack of the Alabama Criminal Justice Center. Anonymous released a document showing that they had extensive access to US Federal Reserve servers and internal documents. Anonymous hacked into the Grand Banks Yachts website and used it to host a file that contained the document.