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Cybercriminal threatens to sell 3.7M Customers data Israeli

Banks

A group of hackers has threatened Israeli banks to disclose stolen data
belonging 3.7 million customers unless the organizations pay up.

The Israel Hayom news revealed that at least three Israeli banks report extortion
attempt by hacker demanding payoff in Bitcoin, the criminal threatens the financial
institutions to reveal sensitive information of banking customers.

The cyber criminals claim to have stolen the details of 3.7 million customers and they
threaten to sell the data on the underground market unless the organizations pay up.

The hacker involved in one of the biggest botnet in the Israel has threatened the 3 major
Israeli banks, Israel Discount Bank, Bank Yahav and the First International Bank of
Israel.

The banks immediately reported the threat to the Israel Police and Bank of Israel, they
received an e-mail message threatening that unless they handed over a certain sum in
Bitcoin currency by the end of next week, "a list of customers' details would be given to
hostile elements."

In time I'm writing there is news regarding a possible data breach occurred to the banks,
but the hacker claimed to have gathered the precious information through a powerful
financial trojan botnet across Israel composed of millions of systems. According the

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