“Washington Post”
By
Ellen Nakashima and Andrea Peterson
August
27 at 10:35 PM
The FBI is investigating intrusions into the
computers of banking giant JPMorgan Chase and several other U.S. banks,
officials said Wednesday night.
“We are working with the United States Secret
Service to determine the scope of recently reported cyber attacks against
several American financial institutions,” FBI Supervisory Special Agent Joshua
Campbell said in a statement.
The FBI did not comment on who was thought to
be behind the intrusions, first reported by Bloomberg News.
The penetration at JPMorgan resulted in the
exfiltration of gigabytes of sensitive data, and Bloomberg reported that it was
the work of Russian hackers. But one industry official said it was unclear who
conducted the attacks.
Bloomberg said the FBI was investigating
whether it was in retaliation for Western sanctions levied on Russia because of
the situation in Ukraine.
But some analysts discounted the theory,
noting that retaliation involves destruction or disruption of networks — not
theft of data.
“We have seen Russian intelligence services
target financial institutions for the purpose of espionage,” said Dmitri
Alperovitch, co-founder of CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, who was not
commenting on the JPMorgan case.
Of particular interest to them is data from
the oil and gas trading desks, Alperovitch said. Oil and gas are major sources
of revenue for Russia.
One industry official said the intrusion was
discovered in the middle of this month. A second industry official confirmed
the investigation, but said there was no indication of increased fraud activity.
“Companies of our size unfortunately experience cyberattacks nearly every day,” said Trish Wexler
, a spokeswoman for the bank. “We have multiple layers of defense to counteract any threats and
constantly monitor fraud levels.”
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