Pakistan bank comes under cyberattack

Authorities have detected a cyberattack on the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) that has disrupted its services which are likely to be restored by Monday, Dawn news reported.

In the late hours of the October 29 and early morning of October 30, a cyberattack on the NBP’s servers was detected which impacted some of its services, Dawn news quoted a statement from the bank as saying.

Immediate steps were taken to isolate the affected systems, it added.

At this point, no customer or financial data has been compromised. Remediation efforts are under way using industry-leading subject matter experts, including international resources wherever required, the bank statement said.

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