Business Research: St. Louis Federal Reserve Research Site Hacked
From the WSJ:
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ widely used data and research website [aka FRED] was hacked, but the regional central bank’s internal systems were not compromised, the St. Louis Fed said Wednesday.
The regional central bank said in a statement, “On April 24, 2015, computer hackers manipulated routing settings at a domain name service vendor used by the St. Louis Fed so that they could automatically redirect some of the Bank’s web traffic that day to rogue webpages they created to simulate the look of the St. Louis Fed’s research.stlouisfed.org website.”
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See Also: Password Reset for St. Louis Fed Research Website User Accounts (via Federal Reserve of St. Louis)
See Also: St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach (via Krebs on Security)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.