NIFT breach worse than expected, hackers threaten to release ePay source code

National Institutional Facility Technologies (Pvt.) Limited claimed to have thwarted an “attempted breach” that brought down data centers in Islamabad and Karachi two weeks ago, but the check-clearing center stole terabytes of data. Is.

Our channel review revealed that there is no problem in cracking NIFT, Pakistan’s only Automated Clearing House and a leading payment system operator. Shortly after the initial breach, hackers downloaded terabytes of data containing scans of every check in the NIFT database.

The hackers claim to have accessed and downloaded the ePay source code stored on one of the platform’s most popular servers, and the ePay source will be uploaded for full disclosure in the near future. He says it will be done.

According to samples verified by ProPakistani, many login data, personal data including merchant data, audit reports and scanned passport documents were stored in a “confidential” folder.

“I’m sure you’ve all read the news about this company. They claim that ‘customer data and privacy are sacrosanct.’ Today we’re going to unequivocally prove that’s not true. However, no representative “No one from this company even tried to contact us to confirm if we had stolen the data.”

Folder “We’ve downloaded several terabytes of data from our database, including scans of all checks.” In the near future, we plan to upload all the source code of our ePay service and make it publicly available.

A NIFT spokesperson told ProPakistan, “Though a thorough investigation is underway, preliminary findings from the forensic team seem to indicate that limited customer operational data may have been compromised. It is.” However, NIFT takes all necessary measures to protect its customers. “

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