It’s being reported that hackers have stolen the details of thousands of Citibank customers including their account details and personal information.
The breach has not exposed the names, dates of birth and card security codes and all of this information remains safe.
The breach reportedly occurred in May and Citibank have been criticised for not alerting customers earlier. Around 200,000 customers have been affected but the bank has said it could affect up to 1% of it’s 21 million customers.
In a statement to the news organisation Reuters, a spokesperson said “We are contacting customers whose information was impacted. Citi has implemented enhanced procedures to prevent a recurrence of this type of event.” The bank has not yet detailed how the hack occurred.
Citybank is the latest company to be hit by hackers. The most high profile was electronics and gaming giant Sony, where the details of millions of customers were stolen. A similiar attack recently on Nintendo was unsuccessful.
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Just went looking around to see what info others had – hard pressed to find anything yet.
NONE of the major US news networks have posted any sort of story. Now who says that the government can’t control the news agencies :()
Wow, I heard about this this morning. We are in the infancy of cloud computing and hackers are going crazy now with the Sony debacle. They almost feel unstoppable. It’s only a matter of time before a real bank is really robbed in someway or another. Scary stuff.
The kicker is that we are not in the infancy of the “cloud” – the cloud is nothing more than mainframe servers being packaged and sold to the public rather than to just larger companies.
Soon we will see cloud terminals rather than PCs if history repeats itself,. So for example, we won’t be purchasing a Dell PC – they will offer a Dell Smart Cloud Pod with software available via an annual subscription.
The thing is that companies have been subject to many hacks in the past – the majority of which were never reported; however, today’s hackers seem to be motivated by different factors than those of yesteryear.
Crazy. Its getting a bit more dangerous than Sony now.
lol, “today’s hackers seem to be motivated by different factors than those of yesteryear.”
This is so cool!