French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirmed to Bloomberg News on November 4 that it was the victim of a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions, without specifying how much money the attackers took, according to the Bloomberg dispatch published by The Star. A spokesperson said some operations have been suspended, that the bank is in contact with the authorities, that the situation is “under control” and that customers will not suffer losses.
The AFP news agency puts the amount of the fraudulent transactions at around 100 million euros, according to Danish public broadcaster DR, cited by the Spanish blog El blog del Euríbor. The same outlet reports, attributing it to AFP, that the Paris prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into an attack on an automated data processing system committed by an organized gang.
Arkéa has not confirmed the figure or published the exact amount lost. It is also not known how the attackers got into its systems.
Not yet confirmed: the bank, the Paris prosecutor's office or AFP itself has yet to confirm the figure of about 100 million and the opening of the investigation on a page we have been able to open; we have not been able to access either the AFP dispatch or the DR article.
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