Treasury shuts down 4 cloud-hosted Web sites after infection:

Treasury shuts down 4 cloud-hosted Web sites after infection: The Treasury Department has taken offline four public Web sites for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing after the discovery Monday of malicious code on a parent site. The bureau began using a third-party cloud service provider to host the sites last year, it said Tuesday in a statement about the incident. “The hosting company used by BEP had an intrusion and as a result of that intrusion, numerous websites (BEP and non-BEP) were affected,” the statement said. The Treasury Government Security Operations Center was alerted to the problem and notified the bureau, which responded by taking the sites offline. [Date: 4 May 2010; Source: http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/05/04/Treasury-hack-update-050410.aspx]