The International Monetary Fund confirms its systems had been breached in recent months by a sophisticated attack. The attack predated the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned as managing director of the IMF last month. The IMF hack follows recent attacks against numerous organizations, including Citigroup and Sony. Most of the information stolen in recent attacks hasn’t been regulated, and likewise wasn’t encrypted. Most security experts suspect spear-phishing to be the cause of the attack, which has lately been on the rise.”]
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