[ISN] Hackers breach bank's online system

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:10:22 -0600 (CST)
http://www.kjonline.com/news/hackers-breach-banks-online-system_2011-03-30.html

By Keith Edwards 
centralmaine.com
Staff Writer 
March 31, 2011

AUGUSTA -- Kennebec Savings Bank's online banking system was infiltrated 
by an outside party and bank officials are working with a team of 
computer forensics experts to find out which customers may have been 
affected and what information may have been accessed.

Bank officials said there was no unauthorized access to customer funds, 
Social Security numbers or debit or credit card information.

"It's safe to use now, it was safe to use then," President and CEO Mark 
Johnston said of the bank's online banking system. "Unfortunately, these 
things do happen. There are bad guys out there working overtime on how 
to get money out of people which they have no right to. But no customer 
accounts were compromised. Not a dime was lost in our customers' 
accounts, or our accounts."

An investigation into which customers may have been affected, and what 
information may have been accessed, is ongoing.

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