Bank of America says hackers lifted its data from a partner

Bank of America blames a data breach on another company that revealed internal emails related to monitoring of hacktivist groups including Anonymous. A group affiliated with Anonymous that calls itself the "Anonymous Intelligence Agency: Par:AnoIA" released what it claims is 14GB of data belonging to the bank and other organizations, including Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, and TEKsystems. Email correspondence in the data suggests that TEKsystems was a contractor working for Bank of America and charged with monitoring public activity by hacker networks targeting the bank. In a statement, Bank of America did not confirm it was working with TEKsystems, an IT consultancy that is part of the Allegis Group. But it said the source of the data came from a third party. Bank of America said its own systems were not compromised. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here