[npoc-voice] IANA Systems Not Compromised

[Rudi Vansnick <rudi.vansnick@xxxxxxx>]

Dear member,

You may have heard about ICANN’s systems been attacked. Today we received the 
message telling us the IANA systems were not comprised. A positive message I 
wanted to share with you.

Rudi Vansnick
Chair Non-for-Profit Operational Concerns Constituency (NPOC)
www.npoc.org <http://www.npoc.org/>

rudi.vansnick@xxxxxxxx
Tel : +32 (0)9 329 39 16
Mobile : +32 (0)475 28 16 32
IANA Systems Not Compromised

 
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As ICANN reported on 16 December 2014, it was recently the target of a 
so-called "spear phishing" attack. During this attack the email credentials of 
some ICANN staff were compromised.

As mentioned in our original announcement 
<https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-12-16-en>, we have confirmed 
that the attack has not impacted any IANA-related systems. The ICANN staff 
members whose passwords were compromised did not have access to the IANA 
functions systems.

The IANA functions are a separate system with additional security measures that 
have not been breached.

During and after the attack, all critical functions hosted by ICANN, including 
the IANA functions, remained fully operational and unaffected by the attacker's 
activities.

ICANN employs multiple levels of protection for its most critical services. 
While the attackers were able to breach the outermost layer of defenses, our 
on-going investigation indicates our most critical systems were not affected.