Stolen data from'virtually all'Pakistan banks goes on sale on dark web

Hackers sole customer data from "almost all major Pakistani banks"
and placed it on the dark web , the country's cyber-crime
chief has revealed.

The comments from Mohammad Shoaib, director of Pakistan's Federal
Investigation Agency (FIA), follow a report from cyber security firm Group-IB that private bank data
have been compromised. Group-IB discovered the
details on the market in forums on the dark web – an area of the net only accessible using specialist software.



"Almost all [Pakistani] banks'data has been breached. In line with the reports that we have, most of the banks have been affected," Mr Shoaib told Geo News.



"More than 100 cases [of cyber attacks] have now been registered with the FIA and are under investigation. We have made several arrests in case, including that of an international gang."

More than 20,000 users have now been affected by the security breach, based
on the FIA, with credit and debit card details from potentially
22 Pakistani banks among the data compromised.

Cyber criminals have previously cashed out $2.6 million from foreign ATMs, based on the Group-IB report, mirroring a similar attack earlier in 2010 during which hackers syphoned
more than 940 million rupees (£10.5 million) from ATMs round the world.


"A fascinating simple truth is that cards from this region are extremely rare on the [dark web] cardshops," the Group-IB report stated.
"In the past 6 months it is alone big sale of Pakistan cards."

In a different interview with Dawn News TV, Mr Shoaib said it absolutely was the responsibility
of the banks to safeguard their customers'data.

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