Days after one of its branches in Lagos was razed down by a petroleum tanker, it appears hackers have gained access to Access Bank’s strong point as their activities have impacted negatively on the leading bank’s shares.
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Share Price at the close of market today drops to -0.20 as hackers threaten to debit over two thousand customers account details.
It will be recalled that an unknown self claimed hacker issue the threat to hack over 2000 Access Bank’s customers’ account through Bank Verification Number, BVN, details he obtained as a result of unsecure database.
He gave this threat through a Twitter handle @NekkaSmith, in a one minute video that has gone viral.
In the video he explained how he was able to hack into Access Bank Nigeria database.
The hacker claimed he hacked Access Bank’s system server to obtain customers’ personal information to show the vulnerability in Access Bank’s internal security, adding that none of the customer information is safe.
The twitter user captioned the video: “Access Bank Data Hack, This Is Not Tidy”, this was even as the hacker called the internal security of Access Bank “stupid” due to how easy he was able to obtain the information that could enable him to debit Access Bank’s customers’ account.
“If someone like me could get hold of customers information like this, from their system, hack into their system, then that should tell you the potential damage,”
The hacker said on allegedly being in possession of over 2,000 Customers BVN, Other sensitive info, which could be able to debit victims’ bank accounts with Access Bank.
