FBI warns of U.S. government breaches by Anonymous hackers
Ron Czapala
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http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-fbi-warns-u-government-breaches-anonymous-hackers-224214150--sector.html
Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc's software to launch a rash of electronic break-ins that began last December, then left "back doors" to return to many of the machines as recently as last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a memo seen by Reuters.
According to an internal email from Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz' chief of staff, Kevin Knobloch, the stolen data included personal information on at least 104,000 employees, contractors, family members and others associated with the Department of Energy, along with information on almost 2,0000 bank accounts.
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What about pointing a finger at Adobe for providing software riddled with security vulnerabilities.
Or the U.S. gov. system admins for installing untrusted software on sensitive machines.
Heads should be rolling here. But not anonymous ones.