Comments on: Massive World Bank Comprimise http://downgrade.org/2008/10/10/massive-world-bank-comprimise The rantings and insight of an ethical hacker, coder and IT samurai. Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: irq13 http://downgrade.org/2008/10/10/massive-world-bank-comprimise/comment-page-1#comment-72300 irq13 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:44:05 +0000 http://downgrade.org/?p=298#comment-72300 Not a surprise with a news source as "Fair & Balanced" and as good at fact checking as FoxNews is... but... UPDATE: After FOX News published its story, a World Bank spokesman issued the following statement: "The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context. "Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments." Not a surprise with a news source as “Fair & Balanced” and as good at fact checking as FoxNews is… but…

UPDATE: After FOX News published its story, a World Bank spokesman issued the following statement:

“The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context.

“Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank’s Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments.”

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