Earlier we have seen world renowned media houses like
CNN,
NBC,
Fox News,
Washington Post,
NY Times,
NDTV and so on have fallen victim to
hackers and
cyber criminals. Now it was the turn for world’s largest and oldest broadcaster -
British Broadcasting Corporation, widely known to us as
BBC. Sources
revealed that cyber criminals have managed to
breach the
security system of BBC and secretly took over a computer
server at the BBC and then launched a Christmas Day campaign to convince other cyber criminals to pay him for access to the system. The attack was first identified by a
cyber security firm named
Hold Security LLC, in Milwaukee that monitors
underground cyber crime forums in search of stolen information. However, it is still not clear whether the hacker stole any information or data or caused any damage to the site. In conversation with press
Alex Holden, founder and Chief Information Security Officer of Hold Security told -"So far Hold Security researchers have found no evidence the conversations led to a deal or that data was stolen from the BBC.” So far the identity of hacker has not been confirmed, but the firm researchers observed a notorious
Russian hacker known by the monikers
"HASH" and
"Rev0lver," attempting to sell access to the BBC server on December 25. However, BBC's security team managed to secure the site on Saturday, claims a person close to clean up efforts. One of the BBC spokesman refused to comment on the issue, he said,
“We do not comment on security issues.” On the other hand, Justin Clarke, a principal consultant for the cyber security firm
Cylance, said that while "accessing that server establishes a foothold within BBC's network which may allow an attacker to pivot and gain further access to internal BBC resources.” So far Hold Security researchers have found no evidence the conversations led to a deal or that data was stolen from the BBC. But we all know that
ftp systems are typically used to manage the transfer of large data files over the Internet. That's why the chances of
data breach cant not be denied at this time. For updates on this piece of news and other hot information of the cyber & tech world stay tuned with
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