Sensitive information

Fear of market volatility caused by

According to U.S. media reports, IMF 8  members and employees of the Executive Board informed the hacking incident, but not publicly released. The agency said more than executives, hacking occurred in the past few months, as early as in the former Managing Director Dominique Strauss - Kahn, hotel waitress suspected of sexual abuse incidents. An executive made it clear that "this is a very serious invasion."

IMF touch the outside hacker attacks suffered nerve, due to the agency stored in the database of information may lead to market volatility. If due to the recent deal for Portugal, Greece and Ireland's financial aid issues and the hold of these countries, "sensitive data." This one with the "country for help," Leaders on financial assistance programs, the contents of the disclosure of private negotiations, may "set off a political backlash in many countries."

Involving the World Bank Possible expansion of the potential threat

Informed sources have said that in the hacking incident, IMF computer systems of some e-mail and text missing. IMF press officer Jonathan Palmer then mass e-mail to employees, requires vigilance.

"Last week we found some suspicious text transmission," the message says, "the subsequent survey, the organization was a desktop computer (hacker) attacks to invade other systems."

In addition to its own system under attack, and the IMF have a close network of cooperation, the World Bank has been affected. World Bank spokesman, said Rich Mills, a precaution, the World Bank and IMF have been cut off network connections. He admitted that the two agencies to share information through the network "is not a sensitive type."

"Similar to other large organizations, the World Bank increasingly concerned about the potential for threats to our information systems," Mills said, "We are constantly working to strengthen preparedness."

Hackers "run unhindered"

Suffer a number of business organizations

IMF is not the first recent months, hackers have been large enterprises or institutions, the recent action seems to have hackers to run rampant and unhindered "realm."