Attackers repeatedly entered the network of the company that operates the Nasdaq stock market in the past year, but the trading platform was not compromised, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The newspaper cited people with knowledge of the matter who said law enforcement investigators are considering various motives for the attack, from financial gains, theft, trade secrets to a threat to national security by damaging a major stock exchange.
Officials consider stock exchanges a high priority, along with energy companies and air traffic control centers, critical parts of america's basic infrastructure.
The investigation into the attack on the New Yorl-based Nasdaq OMX Group was initiated by the U.S. Secret Service and now includes the FBI, the WSJ said.
The WSJ said investigators had been unable to trace the attack and the news quotes experts in the field who claimed the following:
That police investigators are considering various motives for the attack, from financial benefits, theft, trade secrets to a threat to national security by damaging a major stock exchange. The investigation into the attack on the New York-based Nasdaq OMX Group Inc was initiated by the U.S. Secret Service and now includes the FBI, the WSJ said. A spokesman for Nasdaq OMX Group declined to comment on the report. The WSJ said investigators had not been able to trace the attack back to any specific individual or country." So far, (the cybercriminals) seem to have just been watching," an unidentified person told the Wall Street Journal in the Nasdaq case.The newspaper reported that another person with knowledge of the case said the incidents were, for a computer network, the equivalent of someone entering a house and walking through their rooms. but so far he hasn't stolen anything.Source: Reuters
