Well, we know who they are and where they live and why the ma$$ media keeps missing the target.
"Hackers reportedly hit 83m JPMorgan accounts" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Matthew Goldstein | New York Times October 03, 2014
A cyber attack this summer on JPMorgan Chase & Co. compromised more than 76 million household accounts and 7 million small business accounts, making it among the largest corporate hacks ever discovered.
The latest revelations, which were disclosed in a regulatory filing Thursday, vastly dwarf earlier estimates that hackers had gained access to roughly 1 million customer accounts.
The new details about the extent of the hack — which began in June but was not discovered until July — sent JPMorgan scrambling for the second time in just three months to contain the fallout.
As the severity of the hack became more and more clear in recent days, and new information was unearthed, some top executives flew back to New York from Naples, Fla., where many had convened for a leadership conference, according to several people briefed on the matter.
Hackers were able to burrow deep into JPMorgan’s computer systems, accessing the accounts of more than 90 servers — a breach that underscores just how vulnerable the global financial system is to cybercrime.
And who benefits? A crashed economy can be blamed on hackers instead of usurious banks, and all the $oftware $ecurity firms will see more bu$ine$$!
Until now, most of the largest hack attacks on corporations have been confined to retailers like Target and Home Depot.
Related: Home Depot Was Hacked
And unlike those retailers, JPMorgan has far more sensitive financial information about customers. Investigators in law enforcement remain puzzled by the attack on the bank because there is no evidence that the attackers looted any customer money from accounts.
Hmmmmm!
The lack of any apparent profit motive has generated speculation among law enforcement officials and security specialists that the hackers were sponsored by foreign governments either in Russia or in southern Europe.
OMG, they are trying to blame this on Russia when it is coming from the capital of the Jewish Mafia.
By the time JPMorgan first suspected the breach in late July, hackers had already “rooted” more than 90 computer servers — hacker-speak for gaining the highest level of privilege to those machines — according to several people briefed on the results of the bank’s forensics investigation who were not allowed to discuss it publicly.
It is still unclear how hackers managed to gain deep access to the bank’s computer network.
NSA falling down on the job, huh?
And all that data collection, too.
Is it possible the NSA are the hackers?
By the time, the bank’s security team discovered the breach in late July, hackers had already gained the highest level of administrative privilege to more than 90 of the bank’s computer servers, according to several people briefed on the results of the bank’s forensics investigation who were not allowed to discuss it publicly.
More disturbing still, these people say, hackers made off with a list of the applications and programs that run on every standard JPMorgan computer — a hacker’s road map of sorts — which they could cross-check with known vulnerabilities in each program and Web application, in search of an entry point back into the bank’s systems.
Looks like a very sophisticated hack, like only one that could be carried out by an organized entity.
These people said it would take months for the bank to swap out its programs and applications and renegotiate licensing deals with its technology suppliers, leaving hackers plenty of time to mine the bank’s systems for unpatched, or undiscovered, vulnerabilities that would allow them re-entry into JPMorgan’s systems.
In the filing, JPMorgan said there was no evidence that account information, including passwords or Social Security numbers, were taken.
The original hack sent ripples through the financial system and prompted an FBI investigation.
Of course, the FBI has been told "Hands Off" the Jewish mafia.
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"Cyberattack on JPMorgan raises alarms at White House and on Wall Street" New York Times October 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama and his top security advisers began receiving periodic briefings on the huge cyberattack at JPMorgan Chase and nine other financial companies this summer, part of a new effort to keep top national security officials as updated on major cyberattacks as they are on Russian incursions into Ukraine or Islamic State attacks.
And Ebola?
Related: "The Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s website was hacked for a third time
in two days by someone claiming to be an Islamic extremist group
Tuesday, school officials said."
US government hackers have been busy lately.
Why would ISIS or Russia want to hack the financial $y$tem when it is destroying itself on its own?
But in the JPMorgan case, according to officials familiar with the briefings, no one could tell the president what he most wanted to know: What was the motive of the attack?
“The question kept coming back, ‘Is this plain old theft, or is Putin retaliating?’” one senior official said, referring to the US-led sanctions on Russia. “We don’t know for sure.”
Pffft!
More than three months after the first attacks were found, the source is still unclear, and there is no evidence that any money was taken. But questions are being asked as other targets emerge.
They sure are, right here! This all $TINKS to HIGH HEAVEN!
At least four companies — Citigroup, E-Trade Financial, HSBC, and ADP — found that one of the same Web addresses used to penetrate JPMorgan had tried to get into their systems.
Then tell the NSA to GO GET 'EM!
JPMorgan has said that the attackers obtained names and e-mail addresses, but they did not get account information.
What kind of crook steals a wallet but leaves the cash behind?
$TINK!
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"JPMorgan CEO urges coordinated response to cyberattacks" by Steve Rothwell | Associated Press October 15, 2014
NEW YORK — The chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., Jamie Dimon, said that businesses and government need more coordination in order to combat the rising threat of cyberattacks.
So the hacking is an excuse for true Fa$ci$m (not the misdescribed nationalism in my history books), huh?
New York-based JPMorgan said this month that a breach of its computer systems this summer compromised customer information pertaining to roughly 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. Among the customer data stolen were names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses.
But no money stolen?
A growing number of financial firms and major retailers, including Kmart, Target, and Home Depot, have been the victims of cyberattacks.
And yet commerce seems to be flowing.
While Dimon said the coordination between his bank, law enforcement agencies, and other financial institutions has been good so far, it would probably need to improve as the threats escalate. Dimon said that JPMorgan had warned other banks about the attacks that it was experiencing to help them prevent breaches on their own systems.
How much money was stolen in the modern-day bank robbery?
‘‘Cyber is a big deal,’’ Dimon said on a call with reporters on Tuesday. ‘‘It’s going to be an ongoing battle, and unfortunately battles will be lost.’’
JPMorgan is spending about $250 million a year on cybersecurity, and employs about 1,000 people in the area, said chief financial officer Marianne Lake.
Dimon was speaking on a conference call after the company reported its third-quarter earnings.
They made over $5 billion in three months time.
He also said that the prognosis on his health was ‘‘excellent’’ after his treatments for throat cancer.
Bankers always get the best of care. I'll bet the cancer came from all the bullshit coming from his mouth.
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At least JPMorgan had a good quarter.
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Time to head on over to MIT were they are being trained:
"HackMIT kicks off coding marathon" by Jennifer Smith | Globe Correspondent October 05, 2014
CAMBRIDGE — In the middle of a chaotic arena crisscrossed by extension cords, Quanquan Liu dumped a pile of T-shirts and water bottles next to her laptop, getting ready to hunker down and hack.
Now it's a good thing?
The MIT senior and her partner, University of Toronto senior Leila Chan Currie, locked down a table as soon as possible on Saturday morning. Their paper- and cord-covered workstation in MIT’s Johnson Ice Rink would be their home for the next 24 hours as they took part in HackMIT, a code-writing marathon that spans one high-tech weekend.
The computer science contest’s guidelines are broad, but generally contestants are tasked with creating the most innovative software or hardware they can — in 24 hours or less.
And behind all the digital bits and bytes was something decidedly analog: a campground of sorts for the 1,000 sleep-deprived undergraduates, including fireside chats complete with pillows and blankets, cookies, waffles, and the option of a midnight stroll through the rain.
Talk about pimping for the military-industrial complex!
Katie Seigel, MIT junior and codirector of HackMIT, is going through her second year of the event.
“We’re hoping for it to go smoothly and we’re really focusing on the hacker experience,” Seigel said.
While last year’s inaugural event was largely managed on the fly, the organizers are much more prepared this time around, Seigel said.
Participants are undergraduates from any university. The roughly 1,000-person cutoff is for space alone — more than 5,000 people registered for the open lottery, which does not include the guaranteed spots for MIT students.
About 750 MIT students initially registered and 550 confirmed, but Seigel expected about 250 of them to wake up on Saturday morning and decide that a 24-hour hackathon wasn’t the best use of their day.
Nor is spending it reading and posting about the Boston Globe.
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The event includes components that are welcoming to new coders as well as seasoned hackers, such as a Web Programming for Beginners workshop, according to Seigel.
The top eight hack teams will receive $1,000 to $4,000 in cash prizes. Through the hackathon, contestants will have chances to win other prizes from raffles or awarded by event sponsors.
About 30 event sponsors — including Google, Uber, Oculus, and Fitbit — gave quick pitches to the assembled hackers in an opening ceremony. They encouraged participants to experiment with the companies’ application programming interfaces, some offering prizes for the best uses of their technology.
What you begin to realize is the tech companies, hackers, and government surveillance people are one in the same. It's all a $elf-$erving enterprise that services the war machine.
Keynote speakers Adora Cheung, cofounder of cutting edge San Francisco-based cleaning company Homejoy, and Alexis Ohanian, cofounder of the influential online discussion forum Reddit, encouraged persistence in technological entrepreneurship.
Reddit is government?!
“Don’t let not knowing what you’re doing stop you,” Ohanian said.
Hackers were given until 9 a.m. Sunday to submit their projects. The hacks will be judged and prizes awarded later in the afternoon.
About to begin brainstorming ideas with his team, MIT senior Michael Wu said the largely sleepless night would be worth it for the experience.
“It’s an opportunity to work on something I haven’t tried before,” said Wu.
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Time to speak up on where the hackers are coming from and who is paying for it.
