World News - Hackers managed to break into data on more than 360,000 credit card customers of Citigroup Inc. This figure is much larger than first thought when the burglary was first identified.
According to the page the Associated Press, Citigroup said in a statement Wednesday, June 15, 2011, asserts that these customers are from North America region. That figure is one percent of Citi's 21 million customers in the region.
Earlier last week, Citigroup announced the credit card system breaches. They estimate that customer data amounted to 200 000 clients successfully broken. But according to reports yesterday, compromised customer data amounted to 360 083.
The bank said the hacking known on 10 May. The hackers infiltrated the system through an online account base in North America. Among the works known to the cyber criminals are the names, account numbers, contacts and e-mail clients.
However, the statement of this bank, they were unable to get a social security number, date of birth, expiration date and credit card secret codes. This information is important information that is used in every transaction.
Responding to this case, Citigroup has sent letters to more than 200,000 customers, along with a new credit card. Citigroup said that they were not authorized in the view of customer transactions and ask the customers themselves who determine if there is an unknown transaction.
Hacking this time is another large-scale burglary that hit the world's giant companies and institutions. Earlier, the IMF expressed its site burglarized on Sunday. plan earlier this month, hundreds of thousands of email accounts in Gmail successfully broken.
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