HSBC became a target in October. The bank confirms it suffered a data breach whereby account details of some of their online customers was exposed.

HSBC believes the perpetrators carried out the attacks in October 4, 2018 and October 14, 2018. Fortunately only a small amount of customers were affected, reportedly less than 1%. For those affected, they had the following information stolen: full name, mailing address, date of birth, phone number, email address, account numbers, account types, account balances, transaction history, payee account information, and statement history where available.


As a safety measure, affected accounts were suspended online to guard against further unauthorized entry. Impacted user received calls/emails where they were prompted to change their banking details before accessing their accounts.

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