Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach

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Have you logged into the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis lately? If you have, you might want to change your log-in and password....and maybe get credit monitoring...and identity theft protection. ;)

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has been made aware that on April 24, 2015, computer hackers manipulated routing settings at a domain name service (DNS) vendor used by the St. Louis Fed so that they could automatically redirect some of the Bank’s web traffic that day to rogue webpages they created to simulate the look of the St. Louis Fed’s research.stlouisfed.org website, including webpages for FRED, FRASER, GeoFRED and ALFRED.
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Under such an attack would the attackers be able to make it so that it looks like an identified https connection?
 
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