Hackers Hack Citigroup Bank Customers Data – Citi Customers to receive new Cards

Hackers Hack Citigroup Bank Customers Data –
Citi Customers to receive new Cards –

Citigroup acknowledged and said that during routine monitoring, we recently discovered unauthorized access to City’s account online.
City bank said that “We are contacting customers whose information was impacted.”


The bank said about 1 percent of its North American credit card holders had been affected, putting the total count of customers exposed in the hundreds of thousands, based on its annual report for 2010, which said it had about 21 million credit card customers in North America.

Financial Times, which reported the story, said Citi has about 21 million North American customers, so it's probably closer to 210,000.

Citi said it is contacting affected customers and has "implemented enhanced procedures to prevent a recurrence of this type of event."

Citi said that most customers will also receive a replacement card.

Citi also said that While information concerning customers’ names, credit card numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses was exposed, the bank said that data like the “Social Security number, date of birth, card expiration date and card security code were not compromised.”

There has been no impact on any of our Asia-Pacific customers

Citigroup was reported to have been breached by hackers tied to a Russian group in 2009, and before that in 1995.

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Friday, June 10, 2011

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