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A group of hackers Maze hacked into the infrastructure of the state bank of Costa Rica Banco BCR and threatens to publish 11 million credit card numbers in case of non-payment of ransom in cryptocurrency.
Hackers said they entered the bank’s information system in August 2019. According to them, according to the protocols of the financial institutions, Banco BCR was supposed to notify other organizations about security problems, but did not. The Maze Group claims:
“Servers and workstations were not blocked. Confidential data was not protected. In any case, the bank decided to hide the information about the hack. Although security officials could analyze the records and make sure that someone got access to the payment processing system. We stopped the attack because the possible damage was too great. "
Maze claims that in February 2020, the group again infiltrated the bank's systems and found that nothing had been done to eliminate the vulnerabilities. Hackers claim that this was the reason for the theft of data, including transaction information and credit card data:
“We have more than 11 million credit card numbers at our disposal. More than 4 million of them are unique, and 140,000 cards belong to US citizens. ”
Hackers are going to publish all the data, including card numbers. The size of the ransom requested in cryptocurrencies is unknown. In February, the same group of hackers demanded
1,000 BTC for the stolen data of five law firms.
Recall that last month another group of hackers infected a
ransomware with the information system of Parkview Medical Center, the largest medical institution in the Pueblo County of Colorado
, and demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency. In March, DoppelPaymer hackers demanded a ransom of 100 BTC in exchange for stopping the publication of data stolen from the administrative system of the American city of Torrance.
Source: bits.media
Hackers said they entered the bank’s information system in August 2019. According to them, according to the protocols of the financial institutions, Banco BCR was supposed to notify other organizations about security problems, but did not. The Maze Group claims:
“Servers and workstations were not blocked. Confidential data was not protected. In any case, the bank decided to hide the information about the hack. Although security officials could analyze the records and make sure that someone got access to the payment processing system. We stopped the attack because the possible damage was too great. "
Maze claims that in February 2020, the group again infiltrated the bank's systems and found that nothing had been done to eliminate the vulnerabilities. Hackers claim that this was the reason for the theft of data, including transaction information and credit card data:
“We have more than 11 million credit card numbers at our disposal. More than 4 million of them are unique, and 140,000 cards belong to US citizens. ”
Hackers are going to publish all the data, including card numbers. The size of the ransom requested in cryptocurrencies is unknown. In February, the same group of hackers demanded
1,000 BTC for the stolen data of five law firms.
Recall that last month another group of hackers infected a
ransomware with the information system of Parkview Medical Center, the largest medical institution in the Pueblo County of Colorado
, and demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency. In March, DoppelPaymer hackers demanded a ransom of 100 BTC in exchange for stopping the publication of data stolen from the administrative system of the American city of Torrance.
Source: bits.media