The International Monetary Fund also known as the "IMF" has suffered a major blow by hackers.
The organization, made headlines when following the arrest and resignation of it's boss Dominque Strauss-Kahn (He was arrested for sexual assault has been as a trampoline for malware attacks.) there have been attempts to oversee the financial troubles around the world, promote economic development.
According to the New York Times according to sources within the IMF there has in face been a "major breach of security" this attack was serious enough to cut the connection of the computer linking between the IMF and its near neighbor in Washington, World Bank.
Spokesman for the World Bank reported to the New York Times; ""Disconnection was taken out of an abundance of caution, until the nature of the attack was understood." The link to the world bank has since been restored and there have been no reported attacks on the World Bank.
Bloomberg claimed to have gotten its hands on some internal emails and memos distributed to IMF staff informing them there computer systems had been compromised.
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