FBI denies Russian involvement in cyber attack on largest US bank
New York - Kyiv, October 21 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) - At a press conference on Monday, writes Reuters, the FBI has officially stated that it no longer suspects the Russian government of financing the cyber attack on JPMorgan in August 2014, when it nearly lost a base of 83 million clients.
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The Russian government has been ruled out as a planned suspect in sponsoring the cyber attack on JPMorgan Chase & Co disclosed in August. This cyber attack, carried out by the criminalsEarly group, was initially presented as retaliation by the Russian government for US economic sanctions in connection with the military conflict in Ukraine.
On Monday, FBI spokesman Joseph Demarest, assistant director of the agency's cyber division, acknowledged that Russia had no involvement in the attack and that the FBI's suspicions were incorrect.
“There is no indication that the cyber attack was a result of sanctions,” Joseph Demarest said at a news conference.
Recall that in August, JPMorgan Chase & Co suffered a cyber attack that exposed the names and contact information of some of the bank's 83 million customers to hackers, making the attack one of the largest cybercrime breaches to date. According to Reuters, account numbers, passwords, logins, dates of birth, and social security numbers of clients were at risk.
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