Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-11 00:00:00
Affected organization: Bank of Chile
Affected country: Chile
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Shares in the Bank of Chile are down after it confirms hackers siphon off $10 million of its funds, mainly to Hong Kong. However the bank says no client accounts have been impacted. Apparently a wiper malware was used to conceal the real purpose of the attack.