Qatar National Bank admits hackers compromised its customers’ data

Qatar National Bank (QNB) has admitted that its system was hacked and the customers’ accounts and data, as well as their ID numbers, were compromised.
However, the bank said that hackers only obtained information which they could have also acquired through social networking sites.

“QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment and this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps and our systems are fully secure and operational. The attack only targeted a portion of Qatar based customers,” the bank said in a statement published on its website.

“While some of the data recently released in the public domain may be accurate, much of it was constructed and contains a mixture of information from the attack as well as other non-QNB sources, such as personal data from social media channels,” the bank added it its statement.
The bank revealed that the size of leaked information was estimated at 1.4 gigabytes only.

“All our customers’ accounts are secure, and as always, we encourage customers to be vigilant, taking the usual precautions of frequently changing their usernames and passwords through QNB Group internet banking.”