Wednesday 1 February 2017, Poradnik bezpieczeństwa

Hackers attack on British clients of Tesco Bank

Lost24

The bank which is a part of Tesco group withheld online transactions after hackers attack on the accounts of about 20 thousand clients of the bank in Great Britain. 


During the weekend, bank monitoring transactions system took note of suspicious operations on about 40 thousand accounts  and money disappeared from almost a half of them. The part of clients claims that these transactions were performed abroad. According to the British press, the sums up to a few thousand pounds were withdrawn from accounts. The bank announced the compensation of the losses  but still they did not explain how all the money was withdrawn from the accounts. 


Customers of Tesco Bank can still pay by the card and withdraw money from ATMs, only online transactions were blocked. Investigating authorities already commenced  investigation into the burglary.