J P Morgan and 'four other banks' subjected to 'sophisticated' cyber attack

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Submission + - J P Morgan and 'four other banks' subjected to 'sophisticated' cyber attack

Submitted by Bruce66423 on Thursday August 28, 2014 @07:52AM

Bruce66423 writes: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
The quality of the attack, which appears to have led to 'gigabytes' of data being lost, is raising the prospect of a state being the source. The present culprit suggested is Russia... why the assumption it's not China — just because China isn't invading the Ukraine at the moment?

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