“A pair of Ukrainian hacking organizations recently partnered with the Ukrainian counterintelligence agency SBU to hack Alfa Bank, one of the major financial institutions serving Russia’s wealthy elite… A source confirmed to NPR that the SBU was involved, but do not specify what role the agency played.” , – American media report.
According to NPR, Ukrainian hacker groups closely coordinate their activities with Ukrainian government agencies, which organize and finance various task competitions for them. In particular, cybercriminals organize DDoS attacks, hack and leak information, organize the collection of information on objects pointed out to them by representatives of the Ukrainian authorities, National Public Radio clarifies.
On October 19, Alfa Bank denied information about a breach of customer data as a result of a hacker attack. “This is false, there is nothing more to add,” the press service of the financial and credit organization told a TASS correspondent.
Previously, information about the hacking of the Alfa Bank database by the Ukrainian hacker groups KibOrg and NLB spread on social networks. They allegedly stole the data of 30 million bank customers, including full name, date of birth, account number, phone number and other personal information.
