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Hackers transfer Rs 94 crore from Pune's Cosmos Bank
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SME Times News Bureau | 15 Aug, 2018
Suspected hackers siphoned off Rs 94.42 crore from the Cosmos
Cooperative Bank Ltd -- the second oldest and second biggest cooperative
bank in India -- to various foreign and domestic bank accounts, police
said on Tuesday.
The bank was cyber-attacked twice, on Saturday
and on Monday, according to an FIR lodged by an official of Cosmos Bank
with Chaturshringi Police Station.
The complaint said the first
attack took place on August 11 between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. and on August
13 around 11.30 a.m., affecting its headquarters on Ganeshkhind Road.
A
police officer said that during those hours, some unknown persons
hacked into the ATM Switch (servers) at the headquarters and acquired
the sensitive data of its Visa and RuPay debit card customers.
As
per tentative estimates, the hackers siphoned off Rs 78 crore by 12,000
Visa card transactions and transferred it out of the country, including
bank accounts in Hong Kong.
Another amount of Rs 2.50 crore from
2,849 transactions was transferred within India, details of which were
being investigated, said the police.
Before the bank could react,
in a fresh attack on Monday (August 13), the hackers initiated SWIFT
transactions and transferred Rs 13.92 crore to the accounts of a
company, ALM Trading Ltd, with Hang Seng Bank, Hong Kong. The amounts
were soon withdrawn from that bank.
Established in 1906, the
Pune-headquartered Cosmos Bank is the second oldest and second biggest
cooperative bank in the country, enjoying the status of a multi-state
scheduled bank.
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