CERT to Probe System Breach in ATM Heist
The government's cyber watchdog is investigating how the computer systems of two companies that are part of the country's vast IT services industry were breached in a global ATM heist that saw $45 million stolen from two banks in the Middle East.
MUMBAI/BANGALORE: The government's cyber watchdog is investigating how the computer systems of two companies that are part of the country's vast IT services industry were breached in a global ATM heist that saw $45 million stolen from two banks in the Middle East.
EnStage, which operates from Bangalore, and ElectraCard Services (ECS), based in Pune, processed card payments for the two banks that were hit in the theft, several people familiar with the situation said.
"We are investigating the technical aspect," Gulshan Rai, director general of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), part of the department of electronics and information technology , told Reuters on Sunday.
"What kind of breach has happened in the system, how did it happen, what processes are in place, and the entire technical aspect we will look at," he said, adding that the agency had started its investigation on Saturday.
Meanwhile, ECS said on Sunday that investigations show that "the PIN and magnetic stripe data seem to have been compromised outside the ECS processing environment."
Reuters
