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Federal Reserve Confirms: Anonymous Infiltrated Its Internal System, Releasing Bank Executives’ Info

Feb. 6, 2013 9:40am Liz Klimas

Federal Reserve Confirms Anonymous Hacked System and Stole 4,000 Bank Executives Information

While many were watching the Super Bowl Sunday night, Anonymous was claiming it had hacked into the Federal Reserve and posted the names of more than 4,000 bank executives on another .gov website. Now, the Federal Reserve has confirmed that an internal portion of its website was hacked.

“The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product,” a spokeswoman said, according to Reuters.

“Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system,” the spokeswoman continued.

Those whose personal information was obtained, which ZDNet reported included logins, IP addresses and contact information, have been notified.

As we reported Tuesday, the attack appears to be part of Anonymous’ OpLastResort, which is a campaign to reform U.S. computer crime law after the the suicide of Reddit co-founder Adam Swartz who was at the time being prosecuted by the government for illegally going through MIT’s system to steal millions of online scholarly articles.

Now we have your attention America: Anonymous’s Superbowl Commercial 4k banker d0x via the FED acjic.alabama.gov/documents/oops… #opLastResort #Anonymous

— OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) February 4, 2013

Yes we posted over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials zdnet.com/anonymous-post…

— OpLastResort (@OpLastResort) February 4, 2013

The Fed didn’t say specifically what part of its website was hacked, but Reuters noted that it seems to be a non-public website to store a database for banks to use in the event of a natural disaster.

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Comments (91)

LetThereBeLight
Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:55pm
My gut tells me that they are with OWS. The enemy sometimes can use the same tactic as their adversary then lead them to the slaughter. Muster up conservatives who are fed up with this administration and lead them to start a revolution. Oh, that’s exactly what OWS wanted. They are baiting conservatives, that’s my gut!!!!

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ObiteMe
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 5:13pm
GO Anonymous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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chicago76
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:33am
Anonymous may have scoundrels in their org. They may even be like the mafia, but as I recall the mafia was very helpful to us during WWll. Sometimes, you have to take the help where it is and not ask too many questions. Where there are gardens, there is also going to be some weeds.

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vidal
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 9:54pm
Hey Liz Klimas, it’s Aaron Swartz, not Adam Swartz.

.. and he didn’t “steal” anything!

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Mineman_tate
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 7:17pm
Dear Anonymous,

Can you please hack the credit agencies and do something useful and meaningful to me, like erasing all negative information, and raise my credit score? lol

WTF do the anons ever do? OOOHHHHHH, everytime this is the headline: “They threatened to hacked a website, the results of the intrusion could lead to(Fill in the blank) Followed a couple days later by, “They hacked a website…the results…didn’t really have an effect or matter to the world.”

If you’re gonna do something headline worthy, give us a story to read…or shut down the internet so we have to go outside and read. Go online and erase the presidents executive orders…I mean come on.

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charliesouth
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:23pm
They do not forgive.
They do not forget.
Expect them.

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CulperGang
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:43pm
The “government” is spying on you and keeping tabs on you like they OWNED you. They have given you ###### branding you like a cattle. Now they use technology (smartmeters) to spy even in the privacy in your home. This is ABUSIVE. It is criminal according to the US Constitution.
So it is good that activist citizens……DO UNTO THEM AS THEY ARE DOING UNTO OTHERS.
Print their addresses. Let see their faces!!! Let’s see THEIR bank accounts.

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CulperGang
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:32pm
Barber 2 I wrote an arrest outling the need of adherence to the US CONSTITUTION and the MASS ARREST of the criminal elements aka Rotchilds/Barry et al. for accountability. The blaze chose not to print.
Accountability for: LIBOR/FAST & FURIOUS/Treason as in overturn of 2nd Amend etc:
There are billions of GOOD people around the world doing good work for humanityTHEY need to REPLACE the criminals.

Print Blaze. Print. yes, rotchild owns you and reuters so what? GOD really owns you. He will protect you against the beast.

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- CulperGang
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:33pm
  errrrrrrrr………….should read; I wrote and ANSWER outling ARREST needed for…..blah blah…..
  
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motherboard
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:56pm
I am so confused. So is Anonymous part of the good guys, or part of the bad guys?

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- CulperGang
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 1:37pm
  BOTH……..there are independents working for the government to create confusion and chaos…..against the GOOD ones………so people are like you; CONFUSED.
  
  Just look at the end result and you will know who the good guys are and who the evil guys are.
  
  ‘YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR DEEDS.”
  
  If those published addresses are validated as true = GOOD guys.
  
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CulperGang
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:29pm
“Anon is illegal” some dochebag opined. REALLY? No more so than “governments” who commit acts of atrocities against HUMANITY.

Act of atrocities:

1) Mind Control Operations with drugs on soldiers/the poor
2) Cause deliberate civil wars and ARM bothsides
3) Lending rates lent to countires with the intent of TOTAL BANKRUPCY to said state
4) Deliberately with holding energy for higher prices at the expense of death and misery
5) State heads EXTORTING TAX$$$$ to be pay for personal lavish lifestyle………..
6) Judicial System no longer JUST and is a tool for OPPRESSION by elites
7) Murder by government of dissenters.

NEED I GO ON?????????
Anon is many saboteurs who in the face of tyrants found a way.
Chaos is what the governments are causing around the world for the masses. Obvioulsy chaos is what Anon is giving them back. This is not rocket science. TWO CAN PLAY THE SAME GAME.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:36pm
  CUL: So what would you replace the government with ? You really think this is a ” game ?”
  
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- motherboard
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 12:59pm
  Peaking of hte present Government. I would “replace the Government” with a “constitutional government of the people, by the people and for the people.” I heard, a long time ago, this was tried…somewhere, can’t remember where. Some country out there that does not use that system anymore, but, from what I remember of older history books before their re-writes, it worked really well.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:52am
how is this ‘temporary’… that seems to be the new corporate speak for a hole they did not know about but have plugged. otherwise, they have a mole who could ferret out when such a window of opportunity would exist.

and i find i am less than concerned, given what their decisions and behaviors are doing to the nation… while i would prefer an above board transparent oversight, the Fed NEEDS some oversight, since the Congress seems unable to rein in what it created.

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raderby
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:34am
“anal-nomys ” is a hacker working in the WH.

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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 6, 2013 at 11:32am
Anonymous is no different than the unstable, discontent, so-called Palestinians who cover their faces and toss stones. The only difference is that Anonymous throws only virtual rocks. They are way over-rated.

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- charliesouth
  Posted on February 6, 2013 at 3:26pm
  Except for when they, ya know, seek out pedophiles and turn them over to the FBI and identify those who post videos of themselves performing acts of animal cruelty.
  I’m not saying they’re saints…by a loooong shot. But they aren’t all bad, either.
  
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