Hackers Access the CitiBank Credit Card of US Customers

Hackers Access the CitiBank credit card of North American customers. CitiBank, incorporated Citigroup Inc said Thursday, that hackers accessed credit card information of tens of thousands of customers in North America. The bank said recently it was found in routine surveillance information to account for about 1 percent of customer visits. CitiBank has more than 21 million credit card customers in North America, according to the Microsoft Business 2010 Product Key Card- 1PC/1User [Download]” href=”http://newsoftoday.info/microsoft-office-home-business-2010-product-key-card-1pc1user-download/2003/”>Office Home & Business 2010 – 1 User-2 PC [Download]” href=”http://newsoftoday.info/microsoft-office-home-business-2010-1-user-2-pc-download/1729/”>2010 annual report. Bank of New York, did not say exactly how many accounts are being violated.

The hacker can access the service from Citi account online to see the customer name, contact information, account number and email address. They can not access social security numbers, dates of birth, card security code or expiry date on the card.

Violation of the security line Citigroup came after high-profile attacks by hackers in some of the Sony Corp. The attack on Sony‘s PlayStation Network sites exposed to more than 100 million online accounts and strength the site has been temporarily stopped.

Sean Kevelighan, spokesman for the Division of Citi Consumer Banking in North America, said in an emailed statement that Citi interact with affected customers and put the techniques to prevent security breaches from happening again. “For the safety of customers, who do not disclose further details,” he said (Yahoonews). Hacker attack the CitiBank credit card of North American customers was first of reported by the Financial Times.