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Category: Financial Sector

After asking bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps massive customer financial database

Posted on December 3, 2015 by Dissent

Kevin Collier reports that “Hacker Buba,” the individual who allegedly hacked InvestBank in the UAE, has made good on his threat to dump customer bank data if the bank didn’t pay his extortion demand. The means by which that information was posted is striking. Hacker Buba initially tweeted from accounts like @investbank_2, though those were…

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Armada Collective threatens Greek banks with DDoS if they don’t pay $7.2M ransom

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Dissent

Ashley Carman reports: Three unnamed Greek banks are the most recent victims of an extortion campaign in which a hacker group is attempting to fully take down their websites. The group, calling itself the Armada Collective, apparently made its first demand on Thursday of last week, at which point it also launched the first of…

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UAE: Hacker holds UAE bank to ransom, demands $3m

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Dissent

Mazhar Farooqui reported this on Nov. 25: A sinister cyber criminal has hacked into a Sharjah bank and is now holding it to ransom by leaking confidential data of clients on social networking and microblogging site Twitter every few hours, XPRESS can reveal. The criminal who goes by the moniker Hacker Buba and uses a…

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Hervé Falciani, self-proclaimed HSBC whistleblower, sentenced in absentia to five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Dissent

Juliette Garside has the latest development in a case I’ve been covering on this site since 2009 (my earlier coverage is no longer available as the previous incarnation of PogoWasRight.org was not importable into WordPress). The whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss private bank has been sentenced to five years in prison by a…

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‘We complained to Santander CEO of data breach – and were sent documents of three other customers’

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Dissent

Nicole Blackmore reports: Santander has been labelled “incompetent” after a string of errors that saw it lose a couple’s mortgage documents and instead send them letters containing four different customers’ private information in a “gross breach” of data protection laws. Read more on The Telegraph.

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Turkish Attackers Shut Down Russian Central Bank Website

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Dissent

Waqas writes: Turkish hackers just took down the official website of Russian Central Bank amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border. A group of Turkish hacktivist going with the handle of Turk Hack Team has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on the official website of Russian Central Bank earlier today forcing it to go offline for over 10 minutes. While talking…

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