FBI saw Russian trace in attacks on JPMorgan Chase
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the United States suspects Russian hackers stealing data in a large financial conglomerate JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), transfers on Thursday, Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to the agency, as a result of undertaken in mid-August, cyber hackers, presumably, of Russian origin, and managed to steal the declassification of gigabytes of confidential information. At the moment, as the source said Bloomberg, the FBI are trying to determine whether the attack is related to the recent hacking of several major European banks. level of a hacker attack, said the source Bloomberg, allows the FBI to assume that in all cases acted the same group.
In addition, according to the source, the American agency considers the incident as a possible response to the sanctions against the Russian Federation at the governmental level. This is not the first time that American intelligence agencies say Russia is actively using cyber attacks against states that it regards as "hostile". So, in early August of this year the New York Times wrote that a group of Russian hackers stole about 1.2 billion names of American credit card users. Furthermore, as noted above, has also been compromised over 500 million email addresses. According to experts, the attackers acted out of a small town in the southern part of Russia and created a network of infected computers with which made the largest known theft of data on addresses e-mail.
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