WSE website hacked by Jihadists?

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The website was unavailable between 2 p.m. 4 p.m. on Thursday: earlier, some 30,000 login and password records, most likely extracted from the WSE's internal system, were made available on the internet.

The hackers did not use any known name, though the leaked data was posted with English-language comments referring to “Allah” and mentioned revenge for attacks on their country.

Later in the afternoon, the bourse, after informing the Polish Internal Security Agency about the attack, issued a press statement saying that “unsolicited entities” may have gained access to archived data used for its trade simulation features.

“At the same time we would like to inform that the situation remains without impact on the correct functioning and security of the stock exchange's transaction system,” the statement read.

WSE's spokesperson Maciej Wewiór said that transaction system data is stored in a different space than archived data, so they could not be reached at the same time.

Poland sent troops to both Iraq and Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and recently gave “political support” to the US-led attack on ISIS insurgents in Iraq. (kw/pg)