The sad truth about the recent, so-called ISIS hack on numerous North American websites, including one belonging to a Montana credit union, is that they shared nothing in common except for a preventable vulnerability.
Police and the FBI are still investigating the web graffiti attacks in which invaders placed an ISIS flag banner on website home pages. There is no indication that the people launching the hacks had any real connection to ISIS. However, linking them is their use of the WordPress content management platform.
No data breach took place, only "a simple injection of graphics onto the web page," Tom Dedman, CEO at the $101 million Southwest Montana Community Federal Credit Union in Anaconda, Mont., a target in the recent hack, said. "Someone from the FBI said this was really a low-scale attack, as embarrassing as it was."
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
