JPMorgan Chase , one of the largest banks in the world recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned of the possible exposure of personal information about about 465.000 holders of its prepaid credit cards.
The violation of it better safetys held on the bank's website www.ucard.chase.com in July, raised about 465.000 accounts at risk, ie 2% of all 25 million. UCard users. JPMorgan has confirmed that there is no risk for holders of debit cards, credit cards or prepaid Liquid cards.
They informed the police in September, and so far there is no information on how the attackers carried out their attack.
JPMorgan spokesman Michael Fusco said that so far they have been able to find the victims' accounts as well as the stolen data, and that the bank has already notified cardholders of the incident.
The JPMorgan spokesman also noticed that hackers did not rob money from any user's account, and this is because the company does not issue replacement cards but only offers credit card holders to credit card holders.
" Η τράπεζα κρατά συνήθως τα privacy των πελατών της κρυπτογραφημένα, ως προφύλαξη ασφαλείας. Ωστόσο, κατά τη διάρκεια της παράβασης, τα δεδομένα προσωπικού χαρακτήρα που ανήκουν σε αυτούς τους πελάτες είχαν εμφανιστεί προσωρινά σε μορφή απλού κειμένου, σε αρχεία που οι υπολογιστές χρησιμοποιούν για να καταγράψουν τη δραστηριότητα . "Said the agency Reuters.
The aforementioned statement literally made the bank's clients lift their hair hairs, scaring what it might mean "clients were temporarily displayed in plain text in files that computers use to record the activity“. Especially when it comes to perhaps the largest bank in the world.
Οι τραπεζικοί εμπειρογνώμονες αναφέρουν ότι μόνο “μια μικρή ποσότητα” των δεδομένων εκτέθηκε κατά τη διάρκεια της παραβίασης των δεδομένων, και οι πληροφορίες, σύμφωνα με την εταιρεία, δεν περιλάμβαναν αριθμούς κοινωνικής ασφάλισης και άλλες προσωπικές πληροφορίες, όπως ημερομηνίες γέννησης και διευθύνσεις ηλεκτρονικού post officeυ που θα μπορούσαν να χρησιμοποιηθούν από τους εγκληματίες του κυβερνοχώρου για οικονομικές απάτες και κλοπή ταυτότητας.
There is at present a fish silence about the names of the victims and there is no idea about the origin of the attack. Cybercrime considers the kind of information acquired as a valuable asset for sale in the underground market.
Security experts Mr. Stewart from Dell SecureWorks and independent researcher David Shearhave recently released a study on online underground market for stolen data, and their analysis showed that it is quite easy to buy a credit card details for just over ten dollars.
