Hacker keeps his word and published some data customers Plus Bank – Wyborcza.biz

After one hour, 23 on one of the Polish forums on the Tor network hacker published data of 500 business customers of the bank. The database contains a lot of sensitive information: the name of the account holder or the company name, address, email address, phone number, all of their accounts and their balances, held products, banking services, numbers and expiration dates of payment cards and data the last 50 financial transactions .

A hacker with the pseudonym “Polsilver” published a second file – a copy of the Server Plus Bank dating from the beginning of burglary. It took place in the first quarter of this year. – The Bank itself has not contacted me, which I think is weird, but that’s their business – wrote “Polsilver” in the night from Friday to Saturday in the mail to “Election”. The forum post on the Tor network added: “If the bank thought that it delivers now all I have and the case is completed, it is wrong. Too much is at once”.

I declare that 500 accounts have made available, this is just the beginning of the iceberg. He announced that every week in the area will publish next Friday with personal data packets 500 clients. The first one to go corporate account, then “Polsilver” will begin publication of data from private accounts.

The intruder still has a suggestion for Plus Bank: may discontinue publication of subsequent data packets if the financial institution will pay 200 thousand. zł for any orphanage. The Bank can do so in any way, but to confirm his payment is one of the two most famous specialists from cybercrime – editor hiding under the name of Adam from “Trusted Third Party” or Piotr Konieczny, chief Niebezpiecznik.pl service.

Plus Bank was not expecting

Peter Konieczny, on the night of Friday to Saturday, for “Gazeta Wyborcza”, comments: – Milk was spilled, it will be interesting to watch now the bank’s operations. This is the first public case of this type.

“I must admit that it is quite interesting proposal. It shows that a burglar is not about financial profit, but about giving a lesson Plus Bank, which has not taken negotiations and so far neither once publicly admitted that the customers were stolen, nor – as far as we know – you have not warned them about unauthorized access to their data, “- journalists write” Niebezpiecznika. “

He Plus Bank does not by the end of hacker believed in ensuring the publication. Even on a Friday afternoon Nicholas Jablonski of Plus Bank assured in an interview with “Election” that the bank “does not intend to conduct any talks with criminals”. – I can confirm that in March this year recorded a hacking attacks that were detected. We assume that hacker activity is an expression of desperation in the face of the impossibility of theft of cash from the Bank and the Bank of resistance against blackmail – said Jablonski.

200 thousand. zł or published

It all started at the beginning of the week, when the case first described the service as “Trusted Third Party”. Initially it was not clear on what the bank terms, but in the end the representatives of Plus Bank admitted in an interview with “Election” that is at issue in this institution.

The Hacker suggested the bank that if you pay him 200 thousand. zł, it does not provide any data. As evidence that such data is published in a network statement of account Tobias Solorz- – son Zygmunt Solorz-Zak, who de facto (by different companies) owns the Plus Bank. The institution did not pay, so the first customer information came to light.