bdnews24.com :A Turkish hacking group has stolen data of three banks in Bangladesh and two in Nepal.US-based cyber security website databreachtoday.com says in a report that the stolen data was ‘apparently posted online’ on May 10 by the group Bozkurtlar. The Bangladeshi banks whose data have been stolen are Dutch-Bangla Bank, The City Bank, and Trust Bank run by Army Welfare Trust. Sanima Bank and Business Universal Development (BUD) Bank are the two Nepalese banks that came under cyber attacks.According to the report, the same hacking group recently leaked data tied to Qatar National Bank and UAE’s InvestBank. databreachtoday.com says it contacted the five South Asian banks to talk about the data hacking but they did not respond. bdnews24.com also tried to reach officials of the three Bangladeshi banks but failed as Friday was an weekend holiday. Links to the file archives containing data from the five banks have been posted from a Twitter account supposedly operated by Bozkurtlar or ‘Grey Wolves’. The databreachtoday.com report says the group appears to be making good on their threat to release data of more Asian banks, an indication that more such disclosures may be expected in the region.Quoting several security experts who have been following Bozkurtlar, the report says the data in the newest leak appears genuine, but the volume of data from them is smaller than the QNB and InvestBank dumps. The file archives posted were 11.2 MB from The City Bank, 312 KB from Dutch Bangla Bank, 95 KB from Trust Bank, and 251 MB and 47 MB from for BUD Bank and Sanima Bank respectively. The report says the scope of the data varies widely and that each of the zip files contains at least some customer information or account credentials. Quoting Security Engineer Omar Benbouazza, databreachtoday.com says his analysis of the data points to a webshell upload being used at Sanima Bank and Dutch Bangla Bank, as was the case of the Qatar National Bank.
