Hackers are trying to promote what they are saying is confidential info belonging to tens of millions of Santander employees and prospects.
They belong to the identical gang which this week claimed to have hacked Ticketmaster.
The financial institution – which employs 200,000 individuals worldwide, together with round 20,000 within the UK – has confirmed information has been stolen.
Santander has apologised for what it says is “the priority it will understandably trigger” including it’s “proactively contacting affected prospects and workers instantly.”
“Following an investigation, we now have now confirmed that sure info referring to prospects of Santander Chile, Spain and Uruguay, in addition to all present and a few former Santander workers of the group had been accessed,” it stated in a assertion posted earlier this month.
“No transactional information, nor any credentials that might enable transactions to happen on accounts are contained within the database, together with on-line banking particulars and passwords.”
It stated its banking methods have been unaffected so prospects may proceed to “transact securely.”
In a put up on a hacking discussion board – first noticed by researchers at Darkish Net Informer- the group calling themselves ShinyHunters posted an advert saying that they had information together with
- 30 million individuals’s checking account particulars
- 6 million account numbers and balances
- 28 million bank card numbers
- HR info for workers
Santander has not commented on the accuracy of these claims.
ShinyHunters have beforehand bought information confirmed to have been stolen from US telecoms agency AT&T.
The gang can be promoting what it says is a big quantity of personal information from Ticketmaster.
The Australian authorities says it’s working with Ticketmaster to deal with the difficulty. The FBI has additionally supplied to help.
Some specialists have stated ShinyHunters’ claims ought to be handled with warning, as they might be a publicity stunt.
Nevertheless, researchers at cyber-security firm Hudson Rock declare that the Santander breach and the obvious Ticketmaster one are linked to a serious ongoing hack of a big cloud storage firm referred to as Snowflake.
Hudson Rock says it has spoken to the perpetrators of the alleged Snowflake hack – who declare that they gained entry to its inner system by stealing the login particulars of a member of Snowflake employees.
Snowflake has not confirmed this, however stated it was conscious of “doubtlessly unauthorised entry” to a “restricted quantity” of buyer accounts.
If Snowflake is confirmed to be the supply of those ongoing hacks there could possibly be many extra victims.
