A significant cyber security breach is said to have exposed sensitive data belonging to the brokerage business AKD Securities Limited, and hackers are said to have posted the data dump for sale on dark-web markets.
Exclusive information from sources indicates that the exposed data includes client onboarding information for a sample size of more than 1,000 Account Holders.
Data such as complete names, phone numbers, email addresses, residence addresses, bank account numbers, passwords, marital status, etc. were among the information that the anonymous hacker had access to, according to the disclosure.
For what it’s worth, this information may be used to locate a specific person or for extortion, targeted cyberattacks, identity theft, insider trading, and other bad things.
The Chief Executive Officer of AKD Securities, Farid Alam, was contacted by this journalist to get the company’s official position on the situation. He stated:
The client’s financial and trading data at AKDSL is end-to-end encrypted and is hosted in an in-house/premises data center behind a firewall. Therefore, NO clients’ financial and trading data has been compromised.
The allegedly leaked data demonstrates that the hacker had access to some of the most private information, which is often exclusively used for secret purposes.
“Sometimes the data is not available due to a hack, but it can be scraped off the website through data leaking APIs,” says a cyber-security specialist. If you recall, a notable instance of this involved certain regional commercial banks, FBR, K-electric, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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