A month ago, in the middle of August, the user information of half of the country’s banks was hacked, and we all kept silent about it, and the only official reaction was the central bank’s denial. the public relations of the central bank announced on August 15 that “No system of the central bank and the banking network has been hacked, and at the same time as the dollar is falling in the unofficial market, the opponent medias are trying to disturb the peace of mind of the society with fake news.” In this announcement, he attributed the publication of this news to opponent media.
The silence of the media and unofficial news about hacking the banking network
According to Iran digital economy annotation, Many media were interested in believing this denial because the IRLEAK telegram channel, which is now named as one of the hacker groups accused of infiltrating banks and hacking information, just for a few minutes, the news of infiltrating and hacking the information of a number of banks. That Channel posted its Telegram channel and deleted it after a very short time.
At the same time as denying this news, the domestic media also remained silent because in the informal atmosphere governing the news, only hearsay was exchanged and there were no facts.
It was heard that EFTA and the supervising security institutions were stationed in the company through which the hackers were able to infiltrate the country’s banks, but in this regard, the Central Bank continued to pursue a policy of denial and the relevant company was probably not allowed to speak.
Although no official news was placed on the desks of the news agencies and media, and the journalists did not know the authenticity of the published news, but The unofficial news market was buzzing.
Just when everyone was silent, the Politico media published a news story in which it announced the latest details of the hack. If before the publication of this news, no one officially mentioned the name of Tosan and the name of Tosan was exchanged as hearsay or everyone mentioned the title of “a company that provides banking software services”, but the publication of Politico turned the page.
Politico magazine claimed that the Iranian banking authorities have paid a ransom of at least 3 million dollars to prevent the disclosure of the information of 20 domestic banks. The news, which was neither confirmed nor denied by Iran’s official authorities, only one day after the publication of this news, the text of the emails exchanged for blackmail was published.
POLITICO is an American digital media founded in 2007 by American banker and media manager Robert Albritton. At the same time that this digital media published the news of negotiating and paying the ransom to hackers through Tosan managers, internal experts raised the issue that Tosan is a stock exchange company and how does this company want to pay this money without having an impact on the stock market. In the documents that are published in Codal, show the amount.
But on the other hand, some of the data published by Politico are not consistent with each other, in a situation where this publication mentions the name of Tosan, but it also mentions 20 banks that were hacked through this company’s system. that only 11 banks use Tosan cranking; In this case, how did the infiltration of 9 other banks happen? Has another company been attacked? Is breaking into the central bank systems a separate issue?
These are questions that have not been answered yet and it seems that no one has yet come to a conclusion to clarify the space.
In such a situation, none of the banks have informed their customers to change the password of their cards, and apart from the news of foreign media, none of the official media had any new information to inform them.
Is it unreasonable to expect the central bank and the banking network to inform their customers correctly and accurately to protect their data against this?
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