FBI will investigate the alleged Chinese hack in U.S Departments

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In the recent years, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States had experienced very hard time. There were a number of incidents regarding cyber-hacking started in the year 2010. Now, the FBI asked for their answers. Reuter sources informed that the U.S law enforcement agencies are investigating about those were hacked. The FDIC also confirmed that those attacks were sponsored by the Chinese Military. The complete details regarding the initial hacking incidents are not yet available and it will take a considerable amount of time to be recovered. The FDIC targeted at least 2012 to ensure that its systems weren’t hacked. We were unable to receive any comment from FBI. But, the Chinese government has confirmed that it is very hard to find out the original source of hacking attack without discovering evidences.

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The Chinese officials further added that we are afraid that you will not be able to find out the answers regarding those attacks. There is no doubt that online security has been considered an ongoing issue. They further indicated that there were at least 160 alleged incidences of unauthorized access and at least 20 of them were regarding data breaches in the year 2015 in FDIC. Now, at least some of the problems have been fixed by the corporation. They should implement some efficient mechanisms in a sensitive portion of their network or departments. They should restrict its staff not to carry sensitive data in thumb drives while walking away. The nature and size of hacking wasn’t yet confirmed.