US Fed admits computer system hacked

Federal Reserve acknowledged Wednesday that access its computer systems by hackers, but said the incident did not affect the central bank: Washington "critical operations."The recognition came after days of hacker group known as Anonymous claimed he published the personal information of about 4,000 bankers, which was obtained from the alleged Fed."The Federal Reserve System is aware that the information was obtained through the exploitation of temporary weakness in the website product seller," said a spokesman for the Fed said in a statement in response to media inquiries."Been fixed vulnerability shortly after the discovery is no longer a problem, and this incident did not affect the critical operations of the Federal Reserve System."
On Monday, called anonymous Twitter account associated with the resort last operation claimed in a tweet to spread and got "4K d0x bank via FED".Group says it has taken measures to respond to suicide last month of Aaron Schwartz, an advocate of Internet freedom, who was tried illegally to download millions of academic journal articles claimed he was planning to distribute free of charge."This tragedy is the basis for reform of computer crime laws, prosecutors dedication to work" states account in Twitter.The incident comes after the Department of Energy in the United States confirmed that it was the target of an attack on the Internet in January, and who stole employee and contractor data.The news comes after the disclosure also high-level Cyber-attacks targeting the U.S. media, including the news in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal said that come from China.