Banca ceha a respins insa toate informatiile publicate de presa, conform careia sistemele informatice interne ale bancii ar fi fost afectate.
“Sistemele bancii nu au fost afectate in nici un fel. Komerèní banka a inregistrat doar zece cazuri in care clientii bancii au fost victimele unor tentative de a patrunde in sistemele informatice al computerelor personale ale acestora. Banca tine legatura cu acei clienti afectati si-i va despagubi in intregime pe acei clienti a caror conturi bancare au fost furate”, se arata intr-un comunicat al bancii.
Conform cotidianului ceh Pravo, citat de AFP, banca ceha Komercni a fost atacata, recent, de catre o retea internationala de piraterie virtuala, care a reusit sa retraga banii din conturile mai multor clienti.
Potrivit ziarului din Praga, un hacker a reusit sa intre in sistemul intern al bancii Komercni si a transferat, pe cale electronica, banii din conturile anumitor clienti, catre conturile altor clienti care erau, la randul lor, implicati in reteaua de piraterie si au retras, intr-un interval foarte scurt, sumele proaspat transferate, sub forma de bani lichizi.
Potrivit ziazului ceh, banii au luat, apoi, calea Marii Britanii, a Belgiei sau a Ucrainei. O companie de panificatie din Pilsen a pierdut, astfel, aproape 36.000 de euro, scrie Pravo.
Comunicatul de presa al bancii cehe
Komerèní banka’s internal systems have not been disturbed
Prague, 23 August 2006 – KB emphatically dismisses certain information, published today, purporting that the bank’s internal systems have been abused.
In no case have the bank’s systems been disturbed. Komerèní banka has only registered ten cases of clients where attempts at abusing the clients’ personal computers have appeared. The bank is keeping in touch with all the clients affected, and has fully reimbursed the clients for the funds that have been siphoned off.
KB cooperates with the Police of the Czech Republic in the investigation of the case.
With a view to enhancing the security of its Internet banking KB is introdusing a new method for active transaction authorisation. All users of the mojebanka Internet banking channel who use personal certificates in a file for signing transactions, will henceforth also send their SMS authorisation code when making active operations. The SMS authorisation code is basically a one-time password that will be sent to the user via an SMS message and that will be a required part of authorisation by the client in active operations.
Thanks to these new measures, clients will be protected against this kind of fraud.
To further enhance security when the client uses a PC for communication with the bank, certain security rules must be observed. The key rules include, for example, storing the personal certificate on a portable storage device and in a safe place, at all times using the personal certificate in a file only when the client is logged in, setting proper limits for each of the transactions in relation with profile of client and his needs and activating message sending (SMS or e-mail) with information about all payments made from the bank account or payment card. For more details please visit our website, the Security of Sensitive Data link, or www.mojebanka.cz.
