Bank of Russia

Russian bank suffered a massive data breach that stole $25.7 million (around £17.8 million) from Russian banks.

The gang that stole the money, used spear phishing emails to send infected attachments to the customers Once opened, these attachments downloaded malware that created fraudulent transfer orders with instructions to send money to accounts controlled by the criminals.

Russian security firm Group-IB immediately launched an internal investigation into the incident and took preventive stpes.

Source: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/pl/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/cybercriminal-gang-used-spear-phishing-to-steal-25m-russian-banks

"id": "BAN1820522",
"linkid": "bank-of-russia",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "03/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"