"Accessing that server establishes a foothold within BBC's network which may allow an attacker to pivot and gain further access to internal BBC resources," he told Reuters.
The attack was first identified on December 25 by Hold Security LLC, a cybersecurity firm in Milwaukee that monitors underground cyber-crime forums, with the aim of catching people trying to sell stolen information.
Alex Holden, chief information security officer at Hold Security, said that the hacker, who is known by the monikers "HASH" and "Rev0lver," sought to convince other cyber criminals that he had infiltrated the site by showing them files that could only be accessed by somebody who had access to the server.
The BBC's computer systems have been the target of cyber attacks before. Earlier this year, the official BBC weather Twitter account and the BBC Arabic account were hijacked for almost three hours by the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In 2012, the BBC suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service. Director-general Mark Thompson stopped short of explicitly accusing Tehran of being behind the cyber-attack, but described the coincidence of the attacks as "self-evidently suspicious".
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