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Once the disclosure of some information may "set off a political backlash in many countries"
11, U.S. media reports, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the past few months, the computer system suffered a "hacker" attack. The agency said a number of senior management personnel, attack "complex and serious."

IMF spokesman David Hawley refused to disclose more details of the hacker, known as the international financial institutions, is currently in normal operation.

U.S. Defense Department spokesman confirmed the evening of 11 阿普丽尔坎 Cunningham, the FBI initiated the investigation.

Sensitive information

"The New York Times," 8 International Monetary Fund Executive Board members and staff to inform hacking incident, but not publicly released.

The agency said more than executives, hacking occurred in the past few months, as early as in the former Managing Director Dominique Strauss - Kahn, hotel waitress suspected of sexual abuse incidents.

"This is a very serious invasion," one unnamed executive said.

International Monetary Fund met outside hacker attacks touched nerve, due to the agency database to store a lot of information that may lead to market volatility. In addition, it recently busy with for Portugal, Greece and Ireland, issues of financial aid, these countries hold a number of "sensitive data."

A senior International Monetary Fund, told the "New York Times" reporter, there is concern that the agency database that contains it with some "countries for help," leaders of the private negotiations on the financial assistance program content, the information, when disclosed, may "set off a political backlash in many countries."

Involving the World Bank

Bloomberg by saying the United States, hacking incidents, the International Monetary Fund is believed some of the computer system, e-mail and other text is missing.

The agency's chief information officer Jonathan Palmer 8, mass e-mail to employees, requires vigilance.

"Last week we found some suspicious text transmission," the message says, "the subsequent survey, the organization was a desktop computer (hacker) attacks to invade other systems."

International Monetary Fund, World Bank involvement has been hacked. Rich Mills, spokesman for the World Bank said the prudent, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund has cut off the organization's network connection. He admitted that the two agencies to share information through the network "is not a sensitive type."

"Similar to other large organizations, the World Bank increasingly concerned about the potential for threats to our information systems," Mills said, "We are continuing efforts to enhance preparedness."

Pinpoint?

International Monetary Fund spokesman confirmed investigating Holly 11 hacking incidents, while refusing to disclose more details.

"International Monetary Fund (current) fully operational," Holly said, "I confirm we are investigating the incident but not to the scale of the release of more information."

Not clear whether the hackers targeted "pinpoint" the International Monetary Fund.Some computer experts said malicious hackers are sometimes widely distributed software code, wait for some large organizations, "hook"; sometimes used for specific organizations or institutions, "spear phishing" attempt is not authorized access to classified data. For example, hackers can "trick" people click on a particular sector malicious link, and then hacking the computer system.

According to experts, the International Monetary Fund, the probable means of a spear phishing victims.

The IMF is not the first recent months, hackers have been big business or organization.

April 26 this year, Sony Japan issued a circular, admitted hacking into its "PlayStation" and the music service Qriocity cloud network, steal a lot of personal information. Subsequently, Sony Greece, Thailand and Indonesia, and its Sony Ericsson Canada web site attack. Rounds of attack, a total of more than 100 million affected by the Sony Online account.

U.S. banking giant Citigroup, admitted on September 9, hackers steal some of North America customer's credit card information.

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