Hackers are attempting to sell confidential information including the bank and credit card numbers of millions of Santander customers to the highest bidder.
In the post outlining the data it claims to hold the hacker collective taunts the bank, stating: “Santander is also very welcome if they want to buy this data.”Santander, which employs 200,000 people including about 20,000 in the UK, confirmed that it had been hacked a fortnight ago. “No transactional data, nor any credentials that would allow transactions to take place on accounts are contained in the database, including online banking details and passwords,” it said, adding that its banking systems were unaffected so customers could continue to “transact securely.”
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