2014 — HSBC Turkey: In a message to customers on its website, the bank…

2014 2.7M records affected

Technical writeup

Nov 2014. In a message to customers on its website, the bank said an attack on its credit card and debit card systems in Turkey had been thwarted but card numbers, account numbers, card expiry dates and customer names had been ‚Äúcompromised‚Äù.

Root cause

Hacked

References

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-turkey-cybersecurity/hsbc-turkey-says-customer-credit-card-data-stolen-idUSKCN0IW1RR20141112