SAO PAULO (Reuters)-HSBC Bank was the target of a hacker attack on Friday (29) that may have stolen about $ 400 million, in an action that involved invasion of the Brazilian provider of technology services Sinqia, controlled from Evertec, published the site Neofeed This Saturday.
The attack was confirmed by Sinqia, but the company did not cite values or names in a press release in which it states that “it started an investigation to determine the cause of the incident.”
“We are working with the support of the best forensic experts in this. We are already in contact with affected clients, who include a limited number of financial institutions,” Sinqia said in the statement.
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Sought in Brazil, HSBC cannot comment on the subject immediately.
The attack followed one in July at the C&M Software Technology Services Provider, which serves financial institutions without connectivity infrastructure.
The neofed said the style of Friday’s attack “it seems is very similar to and uses a technique known as supply chain attack” where hackers do not directly aim at a single bank but a systems provider that gives access to various financial institutions.
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According to Sinqia, the “incident” has limited “only to the PIX environment. There is no evidence of suspicious activity in any other Sinqia system other than Pix and this problem affects only Sinqia in Brazil. In addition, we have no indication that any personal data has been compromised”.
The company said it is rebuilding the affected systems in a “new environment with monitoring and enhanced controls.”
