Security Breach Found in International Monetary Fund

The servers of International Monetary Fund (IMF) have been compromised. It is believed that the hack was executed with support of an unnamed foreign government. A large quantity of data was stolen, including documents and emails. The sensitive information has been exposed for several months.

So far, IMF hasn’t made a public announcement on the agenda, but IMF staff was notified about the intrusion by e-mail on Wednesday. The e-mail warned that "suspicious file transfers" had been detected and that an investigation had shown a desktop at the Fund had been "compromised and used to access some Fund systems".

The breach was discovered two weeks ago after a suspicious file transfers linked to a compromised computer within the IMF were detected. By the time of this post none of the hactivist groups claimed that they were responsible for the compromise.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an intergovernmental organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries, in particular those with an impact on exchange rate and the balance of payments. The IMF systems hold important and extremely sensitive data about the finances of its 187 member countries and the various negotiations between those countries and the IMF.