twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:22 pm
IllinoisJayhawk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 1:14 pm
twocoach wrote: ↑Tue Aug 20, 2019 12:40 pm
Our banks are under attack every millisecond of every day. There are bots hammering away at our door looking for a way in. Unless you are banking with some mom and pop bank, I dont worry about that scenario. It's not impossible but damn near.
LOL guess you missed Chase Bank getting hacked.
Good lord you just speak BS like it's fact non stop. Fucking clown.
That's a piddly little breach thanks to an employee falling for a phishing campaign. What he was talking about was a multi bank hack where the criminals infiltrate the actual systems and gain access to cardholder accounts, not a glean of cardholder names, addresses, phone number and emails after the fact. There were NO account information (card numbers, passwords, user IDs etc...) compromised in the Chase hack.
I can get people's names addresses, emails and phone numbers from a damn Google search.
Actually, what I was thinking about was a total shut down and loss of access.
People unable to use their credit, unable to access their money, unable to make withdrawals (and deposits), etc. I assume there are many extremely sophisticated measures in place to prevent that from happening but as I have been known to say - where there is a will there is way.
"Whether a major cyber attack is deliberate or somewhat accidental, the damage could be substantial. Most of the ATM networks across North America could freeze. Credit card and other payment systems could fail across entire nations, as happened to the VISA network in the UK in June. Online banking could become inaccessible: no cash, no payments, no reliable information about bank accounts. Banks could lose the ability to transact with one another during a critical period of uncertainty. There could be widespread panic, albeit temporary".
https://hbr.org/2018/09/how-a-cyber-att ... ial-crisis