Hacker group offers stolen customer data to Santander

Hacker group ShinyHunters is offering customer and employee data stolen from Santander in a cyber attack it suffered two weeks ago.

In an advertisement on a hacker forum, a group of cybercriminals claim that they haven information from 30 million customers and 28 million credit card numbers, among other things

Hacker group ShinyHunters is offering customer and employee data stolen from Santander in a cyber attack it suffered two weeks ago.

In an advertisement on a hacker forum, a group of cybercriminals claim that they haven information from 30 million customers and 28 million credit card numbers, among other data.

These numbers will be greater than the amount of stolen information According to informed sources, the bank was damaged as a result of a computer attack.

“Santander is also welcome if you want to buy data,” says the ad, asking $2 million for the information.

In the middle of the month, Santander announced that it had suffered “aggression”. Unauthorized access into the object database hosted by the provider.”

Cybercriminals gained access to information from clients of its subsidiaries in Spain, Chile and Uruguay, and all employees and certain former employees of the group.

The stolen data did not include transaction information, access credentials or online banking passwords to work with the organization.

The hacker collective ShinyHunters also assured this week that it has data 560 million Ticketmaster users, after a computer attack on the ticket purchasing platform.

In the past, ShinyHunters have been linked to large-scale cyber attacks on companies such as AT&T or Pizza Hut.

Cybercriminals store and sell stolen data on the so-called dark web.dark web) and use social networks to find potential buyers.

Development of digitalization, development of technologies and rising geopolitical tensions Cyber ​​incidents have increased, especially since 2020.

Financial institutions suffered direct losses due to computer attacks $12 billion since 2004 According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).