Clients of Tochka Bank suffered from Beeline leak

Tochka Bank said it suffered from a data breach of 8.7 million Beeline home Internet users: fraudsters withdrew money from the accounts of 10 customers, The Bell was told in a financial institution. After that, Tochka customers received a notification about the need to change their password.

• “By a strange coincidence, all the victims had one telecom operator - Beeline. The password for entering the Internet bank coincided with the password for the Beeline personal account. They had forwarding turned on, which clients, as they assured us, did not turn on, ”Boris Dyakonov, the founder of Tochka, told The Bell through the press service.
• According to him, Tochka is conducting an internal investigation and has contacted the police and the Central Bank. The bank compensates customers for losses independently. About what amount we are talking about, the bank does not say.

upd As Beeline's press service told The Bell, the operator is interacting with the bank's specialists to find out the technical details.

• The Beeline database contained names, addresses and phone numbers - mobile and home. The operator called the leak custom-made, stating that the company discovered it back in 2017 and punished those responsible.