The information of almost all the banks operating inwards Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been hacked inwards a recent massive cybersecurity breach, Federal Investigation Agency report.
FIA accept disclosed the laid upwards on afterward 10 banks accept suspended all their international transactions from their cards, Geo News reported.
"According to a recent study nosotros accept received, information from almost all Pakistani banks has been reportedly hacked," FIA Cybercrimes Director retired Capt Mohammad Shoaib told Geo News.
Shoaib revealed that FIA has written to all banks, too called out a coming together amongst the heads too safety administration squad of all the banks that were affected past times the safety breach.
"Banks are the custodians of the coin people accept stored inwards them," Shoaib said.
A digital safety website krebsonsecurity.com has said that the information of over 8,000 customers of nigh 10 Pakistani banks were existence sold inwards a night market.
However, Islamic Republic of Pakistan Banks’ Association (PBA) has dismissed the reports of information hacking of 10 Pakistani banks data. The PBA spokesman said that the information technology safety of 1 banking concern was compromised, too other than that no breach has been reported
“It is of import to empathise the divergence betwixt fraudulent transactions too hacking attempt. Fraudulent transactions tin last successful without hacking the bank,” the spokesperson said.
“When a jibe volume or a leafage of a jibe volume is lost, it tin last used past times fraudsters to pocket money. Likewise, if a credit or debit carte du jour is lost or stolen, it tin too last used inwards fraudulent transactions,” he added.
