The international financial institution HSBC said it was violated in October. According to the company, names, addresses, transaction history, account information, and more have leaked.
In a Communication [PDF] filed in the State of California, the bank stated that it was aware that some online accounts were accessed by unauthorized users from October 4 to 14. The hack affected a fraction of the bank's US customers (less than 1 percent of the US customer base bases), according to the company's statements to the BBC, but for now no exact numbers have been released.
Spread names, addresses, birthdates, and account balances, transaction histories, and account numbers.
"HSBC deplores this and takes responsibility for protecting its customers," the bank said in a statement.
We have warned customers whose accounts may have been subject to unauthorized access and are offering them a year of monitoring their transactions a service theft protection.
The hack seems to have been done with brute force attacks. Attackers managed to find passwords using automated account credentials.
Bryan Becker, Application Security Researcher at WhiteHat Security Reported:
In general, banks require a two-factor authentication, and this stops any attack using credential stuffing. So we have the question: Why did HSBC not use two-factor authentication, or, if it was using, what was the real cause of the violation?
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