Italian global banking and financial services giant UniCredit has announced that its cybersecurity team has identified “a data incident” that resulted in the compromise of personal data of 3 million of its customers.
What data was compromised?
UniCredit has subsidiaries in many European countries, as well as Russia, Turkey, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This latest data incident involves compromised personal information of some 3 million of its Italian customers. To be specific, the file contains their name, city, telephone number and email address, but not their account details, password or any other type of data that could allow attackers to access customer accounts or effect unauthorized transactions.
The file was generated in 2015. UniCredit did not say who had access to the file or how they discovered that the file fell into the wrong hands.
How did it happen?
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