January 8, 2015
Geneva – Swiss bank BCGE said Thursday hackers had stolen the personal data of thousands of clients as a newspaper reported it was being blackmailed.
The Banque Cantonale de Geneve said the theft had affected several thousand of its estimated 240,000 clients but that there had been “no financial damage.”
The hackers, calling themselves Rex Mundi, were threatening to publish some 30,000 emails of the affected clients if the bank did not hand over 10,000 euros ($11,800) by Friday, the Le Temps daily reported.
The threat was reportedly made on Twitter.