A hacker broke into the United Arab Emirates’s Invest Bank., stole its customer data and started dribbling it out over Twitter, one account at a time, demanding $3 million to stop. The bank didn’t pay for it, so the hacker dumped the bank’s financial databases.
“Hacker Buba” has compromised an Eastern European basketball team’s site, and is using it to host apparently genuine files with names like “Balance of 837,000 users,” “100,000 transactions 2013-2014 from us” and “Balances of 50,000 credit cards.”
The actual data appears to be real. And it’s vast. One database analyzed by the Daily Dot includes the sensitive information of around 40,000 customers, including their full names, credit card numbers, and birthdays. One account contained 4,7174,962.38 dirham, or $12,844,589.77. Those accounts’ total earnings add up to $110,736,002.
Other databases show information for other customers, and include detailed transaction histories.
After asking bank for $3 million ransom, hacker dumps massive customer financial database
[Kevin Collier/Daily Dot]
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