NASDAQ Breach: You Should be Concerned

How Long Were Hackers Prowling Around the Systems?

February 10, 2011 - Tracy Kitten

If hackers were trolling around NASDAQ systems and servers for months and we're just now hearing about, we all should have some serious concerns.

Since news of the NASDAQ systems breach broke earlier this week, I've been reading with interest the updates about this still-unfolding cyber case.

On Feb. 5, a story broke about the NASDAQ breach. In a statement issued by NASDAQ this week, NASDAQ says it learned of the breach through routine monitoring. "We detected suspicious files on the U.S. servers unrelated to our trading systems and determined that our web facing application, Directors Desk, was potentially affected," the statement says. "We immediately conducted an investigation, which included outside forensic firms and U.S. federal law enforcement. The files were immediately removed and at this point there is no evidence that any Directors Desk customer information was accessed or acquired by hackers. Our trading platform architecture operates independently from our web-facing services like Directors Desk and at no point was any of NASDAQ OMX's operated or serviced trading platforms compromised."

Read the full story at bankinfosecurity.com