1. It happened during the Treasury auction, and if the timing was intentional, a case could be made about it being a national security issue. The hackers disrupted the largest, and possibly most important, auction in the financial world.
2. The hackers may have unintentionally provoked an entity you definitely don’t want on your bad side: the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber arm.
3. I wonder if ICBC used a specialized courier service to send the USB stick, or if such a thing even exists. Or did they just use any old messenger service in Manhattan? If the latter, it’s funny to think that there was somebody biking across the city carrying billions of dollars worth of liquidity and settlement data and he/she would’ve been none the wiser.
1. It happened during the Treasury auction, and if the timing was intentional, a case could be made about it being a national security issue. The hackers disrupted the largest, and possibly most important, auction in the financial world.
2. The hackers may have unintentionally provoked an entity you definitely don’t want on your bad side: the People’s Liberation Army’s cyber arm.
3. I wonder if ICBC used a specialized courier service to send the USB stick, or if such a thing even exists. Or did they just use any old messenger service in Manhattan? If the latter, it’s funny to think that there was somebody biking across the city carrying billions of dollars worth of liquidity and settlement data and he/she would’ve been none the wiser.