Hackers are cyber-attacking three Greek banks and demanding ransoms in bitcoin
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Hackers have staged cyber-attacks on three
Greek banks and demanded a ransom in bitcoins, a virtual monetary
unit, to stop their disruption, banking sources said on Monday.
(Reporting by Lefteris Papadimas; Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing
by Richard Balmforth)
"We informed the police and the country's secret services are
involved," a second banker said. "It's an easy to handle
situation. There is no need for bank clients to worry."
The attacks work by overloading the websites until they are
forced to inhibit access or go offline.
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"All they achieved was to block the web banking for a few hours.
Nothing else," one banker told Reuters, speaking on condition of
anonymity. The sources said the hackers had given the name of
their group as Armada Collective.
The banks had refused to pay up and alerted the security services
and the Greek central bank, which are investigating.
The sources said the hackers managed to block the Internet
banking activity of three Greek lenders for a few hours last
Thursday but did not penetrate the banks' security or obtain
confidential client data or access to accounts.
A hacking extortion group using the same name was reported in
mid-November to have staged sustained Distributed Denial of
Service attacks on several private email services.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
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