UK man charged with hacking Federal Reserve

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246650/UK_man_charged_with_hacking_Federal_Reserve

By Grant Gross
IDG News Service
February 27, 2014

A British man faces new charges in the U.S. for allegedly hacking into the 
Federal Reserve Bank's servers and stealing names, email addresses and 
other personal information of the bank's computer users.

Lauri Love, already facing charges in New Jersey and Virginia, is charged 
with one count of computer hacking and one count of aggravated identity 
theft in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said 
Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney there.

Documents charging Love in New York were unsealed Thursday.

"Lauri Love is a sophisticated hacker who broke into Federal Reserve 
computers, stole sensitive personal information, and made it widely 
available, leaving people vulnerable to malicious use of that 
information," Bharara said in a statement. "We place a high priority on 
the investigation and prosecution of hackers who intrude into our 
infrastructure and threaten the personal security of our citizens."

It was unclear who is representing Love in the U.S. cases.

Love used a SQL attack to infiltrate the bank's servers, according to a 
press release. In late December 2012, Love told other hackers in an IRC 
chat room that he had gained control of the server for the Federal Reserve 
Bank in Chicago, according to the indictment in New York. He also gained 
access to a Federal Reserve Bank server in New York, the U.S. Department 
of Justice alleged.

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