Resecurity, a California-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 corporations globally, has noticed a new group of hacktivists targeting financial institutions in Egypt.
The bad actors go under the campaign “EG Leaks” (also known as “Egypt Leaks”), they started leaking large volumes of compromised payment data belonging to the customers of major Egyptian banks on the Dark Web.
First mention of this activity has been detected in a Telegram channel created to leak Excel files containing 12,229 credit cards.
The leaked data includes references to PII belonging to potential customers of major banks in Egypt – including National Bank of Egypt, HSBC Bank Egypt, Bank of Alexandria, Banque Misr, Alexbank, Credit Agricole Egypt, and multiple other banks.
While some of the data seem to be incomplete, it was confirmed the data contained multiple customers with valid details, these customers were contacted individually to confirm and validate it.
