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HSBC confirms data theft in the United States

The HSBC headquarters in Istanbul are pictured on June 9, 2015. Scandal-hit bank HSBC said on June 9 it would cut its global headcount by up to 50,000 as part of a restructuring that entails its withdrawal from Brazil and Turkey, while it also mulls abandoning London as its HQ. AFP PHOTO/ OZAN KOSE (Photo […]

HSBC suffers data breach after hackers access customers’ personal data

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) has suffered a data breach in which unknown hackers have accessed personal and financial data of its customers. The data breach, according to the notification from HSBC, took between October 4, 2018, and October 14, 2018. Upon detecting the breach, authorities suspended online access to prevent further unauthorized entry […]

HSBC voice recognition security system spoofed by BBC

A BBC Click reporter, Dan Simmons, reported that his non-identical twin brother was able to access his bank account through the newly developed voice-recognition verification system launched recently by the HSBC bank. How does the voice recognition ID system work? Most of you may have heard of the voice recognition system before. It was also […]

HSBC Website Suffers DDoS Attack

The OurMine Hacking group conducted a massive DDoS attack on HSBC websites forcing the sites to go offline in the UK and the USA! The official domain of HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) came under massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 12 July affecting domain in the UK and the USA. The DDoS attack was conducted by […]

Hackers Target HSBC UK Bank with Massive DDoS Attack

The HSBC UK’s banking servers were under powerful DDoS attack — Bank claims it defended its system against the attacks The online banking system of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) the UK was hit by a series of DDoS attacks Friday morning, affecting the servers on one of the most important days that is the payday. […]

HSBC online banking services offline due to a DDoS attack

The British branch of the HSBC bank has suffered for the second time in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline. It’s happened again, HSBC customers were not able to access the online services of the bank due to a DDoS attack that hit the financial institution. “HSBC UK internet banking was attacked this morning. […]