In brief Spanish financial giant Santander has downplayed claims its international money transfer startup PagoFX was compromised.
At the end of last week, The Register was contacted by an anonymous source who claimed "database schemas, infrastructure docs, digital risk assessments, customer security checks, and Salesforce training material" belonging to PagoFX had been stolen and put up for sale on an underground hacking forum. It is believed the files, nearly 2GB in all, were taken from a third-party software developer used by PagoFX that was compromised.
A Santander spokesperson told us a leak was "detected" in August, though would not comment on any specifics other than to say its core systems are unaffected and "no sensitive personal information or payment data" was accessed. He added that "the claims are quite overstated." Judging from the list of files in the purported leak, it is mostly sample source ..
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