FBI said to examine whether Russia tied to JPMorgan hacking

The incidents occurred at a low point in relations between Russia and the West, as Russian troops continue to mass on the Ukrainian border and the West tightens sanctions aimed at crippling Russian companies, including some of the country's most important banks. The sophistication of the attack and technical indicators extracted from the banks' computers provide some evidence of a government link, but the trail is muddy enough that investigators are considering the possibility that it's cyber criminals from Russia or even elsewhere in Eastern Europe. "The way the Russians do it, to the extent we can see into the process, is they encourage certain targets," said James Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "Companies of our size unfortunately experience cyber attacks nearly every day," Patricia Wexler, a JPMorgan spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.

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