'Almost All' Pakistani Banks Hacked In Security Breach, Report Says (dawn.com) 23
The cybercrime wing of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency has said data from "almost all" Pakistani banks was stolen in a recent security breach. FIA Cybercrimes Director retired Capt Mohammad Shoaib told Geo News that hackers based outside the country had breached the security systems of several local banks. "The hackers have stolen large amounts of money from people's accounts," he added. From a report: He said the FIA has written to all banks, and a meeting of the banks' heads and security managements is being called. The meeting will look into ways the security infrastructure of banks can be bolstered. "Banks are the custodians of the money people have stored in them," Shoaib said. "They are also responsible if their security features are so weak that they result in pilferage." It wasn't immediately clear when exactly the security breach took place. According to Shoaib, more than 100 cases are being investigated by the agency in connection with the breach.
Damages (Score:4, Funny)
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China sure does play hardball (Score:2)
But, then again, Pakistan asked for it.
Re: China sure does play hardball (Score:2)
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NATO far more likely, pretty much bet on it. They want to scope out the arms trade and drug money flow, they have been denied access to, as well as Renmimbi flow in Pakistan, under US direction of course.
Long story short (Score:3)
The talk is about the biometric authentication front-end used for biometric ATMs being pwned through banal SQL injection
Whoopsie (Score:2)
Mulligan
Thats the difference between Pakistan and the West (Score:4, Funny)
On the other hand, all the banks of Pakistan are breached and money got stolen, and no one in the street notices it because they never use the banks anyway, everything is done on cash.
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Well, noone on the street notices, because they're all fighting the police and yelling, because they want to kill a lady, who said some negative things about their prophet 10 years ago.
New Saying (Score:5, Funny)
Trust in Allah, but change your router's default password.
They Fell for it (Score:2)
They were taken in by scam calls from "Windows" in India.
What the statement failed to mention... (Score:2)
Politicians in Pakistan were upset when they learned their ill-gotten booty had been stolen by criminals they didn't control and hence have no way to get their booty back. Further consternation resulted when they realized they couldn't blame those nice Chinese that are stealing the part of the country the pols haven't yet gotten to. Also, they cannot blame those nice Norks ever since those tea parties where infrastructure investment, cultural exchanges, and nuclear weapons technology transfers were discusse
Bitcoin user not affected [nt] (Score:1)
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