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2012 3.0M records affected Share on X

Technical writeup

After finding a security vulnerability in Iran's banking system, software manager Khosrow Zarefarid wrote a formal report and sent it to the CEOs of all the affected banks across the country. When the banks ignored his findings, he hacked 3 million bank accounts, belonging to at least 22 different banks, to prove his point.

Root cause

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