Hackers have broken into a European bank and are blackmailing its customers
Hackers have broken into a high-end European bank and are blackmailing its customers.
Customers of Valartis, a Chinese-owned Liechenstein bank, are being told by unknown blackmailers they must pay 10% of their life savings or face having account details sent to finance authorities and the media, German-language newspaper Bild reports.
On Tuesday, the bank said that it did not know of any money losses, and that account statement was not obtained. "The attacker did not obtain details of the account statement or asset data," Chief Financial Officer Fong Chi Wah said in the statement. "Possible affected customers have already been informed by the bank."
