Cyber attack targeted Paris G20 meeting atendees

The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. Not everyone agrees with the work they are doing.

The French finance ministry has confirmed it came under a cyber attack in December that targeted files on the G20 summit held in Paris in February.

More than 150 of the ministry’s 170,000 computers were affected.

“We noted that a certain amount of the information was redirected to Chinese sites,” an anonymous official was quoted by the French magazine. “But that [in itself] does not say very much.”

From the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12662596

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