Lockbit claims hack of the Federal Reserve

The Lockbit ransomware group announced that it had breached the systems of Federal Reserve of the United States and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data, including “Americans’ banking secrets.”

The Lockbit ransomware group added the Federal Reserve to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak the stolen data on 25 June, 2024 20:27:10 UTC.

The group hasn’t published any sample of the stolen data.
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Many experts are skeptical about the criminal group’s announcement. The Federal Reserve is a high-profile target, and a data breach could have serious repercussions. Many believe that the group’s announcement is just for attention.
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While the cybercriminals kept their promise by uploading financial information on to the dark web, it appeared they only included links to a Federal Reserve press link from mid-June and others led to Evolve Bank and Trust's data from a previous hack.

Some experts speculated that this was merely an attempt by LockBit to improve its standing in the hacking community and to gain attention.
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chieftain said:

... My take on it is that the Fed was not only hacked, but core systems were exposed and compromised. They spent a metric fuckton of fiat to make sure the data never got out ...

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pmbug said:

So you think the Russian hackers at Lockbit cooperated with the Fed to cover up the story?

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