No cyber attack, which resulted in the correspondent accounts of the Bank of Russia has gone from 2 billion rubles, and was not, told TASS representatives of the regulator. Thus there commented on reports the American TV channel CNN.
“Information about the theft of 2 billion rubles correspondent accounts with the Bank of Russia in case of a hacker attack is not true. In the financial stability Review, which was presented the night before, it was about the losses incurred by commercial banks and their customers, as a result of hacker attacks for all of 2016,” — said the CBR.
Earlier, CNN, citing Deputy head of the main Directorate of security and information protection of the Central Bank Artem Sychev said that hackers stole 2 billion rubles from Russian banks, which were in CB. According to the representative of the Bank, the hacker’s goal was 5 billion rubles, but the attack failed to reflect the services of the Central Bank and thus to recover some stolen.
Later, “Interfax” explained that Sychev really told journalists that the cyber fraudsters with the beginning of the year tried to steal customer funds in Russian banks on the amount. However, this is not new data, the same indicators Sychev called on the forum Finopolis in Kazan in October 2016. The same information stated in the financial stability Review December 2.
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