Thursday 19 May 2016

Turkish Hackers Behind Six International Bank Heists

According to ‘Data Breach Today’ a website on cyber-security based in USA, Turkish hackers just exposed 3 Bangladeshi banks’ data. The hacker group is known as Bozkurtlar and the names of three banks whose data it leaked are Trust Bank, The City Bank, and Dutch Bangla Bank. It’s greatly worrying that the exposed info may’ve had secret customer credentials and account information.

With the latest hack, it becomes increasingly urgent that Bangladesh Bank and the government together embark on comprehensive reforms for advancing security protocols and procedures within Bangladesh’s banking system. When files got leaked, it was found that they together barely weighed over 300MB as the leaked data belonged to the foremost 5 banks.

Further according to Data Breach Today, another bank, one Vietnam based commercial bank lately got hacked from the same hackers who were involved in the Bangladesh Bank fraud, associating with the way hackers within the region operated i.e. laundering the seized money out of accounts of Bangladesh Bank into Sri Lanka and the Philippines back sometime. For the full article click here 



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