Security News > 2024 > March > International Monetary Fund email accounts hacked in cyberattack
The International Monetary Fund disclosed a cyber incident on Friday after unknown attackers breached 11 IMF email accounts earlier this year.
The IMF has found no evidence that the attackers gained access to other systems or resources outside of the breached email accounts.
"The International Monetary Fund recently experienced a cyber incident, which was detected on February 16, 2024. A subsequent investigation, with the assistance of independent cybersecurity experts, determined the nature of the breach, and remediation actions were taken," the IMF said.
"The investigation determined that eleven IMF email accounts were compromised. The impacted email accounts were re-secured. We have no indication of further compromise beyond these email accounts at this point in time. The investigation into this incident is continuing."
Days later, Hewlett Packard Enterprise also disclosed that the Russian hackers had gained unauthorized access to some of its Microsoft Office 365 email accounts and exfiltrated data since May 2023.
In September 2023, the Chinese Storm-0558 hacking group also stole 60,000 emails from U.S. State Department accounts after breaching Microsoft's Exchange email servers.