World Bank Denies Fox News Reports of Multiple Breaches

By Marc Handelman on October 10th, 2008

UPDATE: InformationWeek’s Thomas Claburn reports the World Banks’ apparent denial of all allegations and reports of penetrations to their secured infrastructure.

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From the post: “The World Bank’s computer network has been repeatedly raided by hackers for over a year, according to a Fox News report.

But a World Bank spokesperson insists the Fox report is inaccurate. “The story is fundamentally wrong,” the spokesperson said in an e-mail. “It is riddled with falsehoods and errors and cites misinformation from unattributed sources and e-mails that are taken out of context.”

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