Cybersecurity
FBI Warns of Hacks By Moonlighting Foreign Agents
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Cyber-attacks on JPMorgan Chase & Co. and 13 other financial companies may have been carried out by hackers from a foreign government moonlighting as criminals, a senior Federal Bureau of Investigation official said.
The FBI is investigating the possibility that hackers who raided the data banks of JPMorgan to steal customer information from 76 million households and 7 million small businesses did so with the knowledge and consent of a foreign government, Joseph Demarest, assistant director of the bureau’s cyber division, said.