ICANN targeted by hackers

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it believes its staffers were targeted by a hacking campaign that began in late November 2014. ICANN said it noticed early in December that a “spear phishing” attack on some employees had allowed hackers to gain access to administrative files containing domain operators’ names, addresses and phone numbers, as well as other sites. Systems relating to the operation of the Web address system have not been impacted, ICANN said.