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French banking group hit by supply chain cyberattack
French regional banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa admitted Wednesday that attackers had accessed an internal account via an unnamed third-party service provider’s platform and transferred funds to other financial institutions.
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French regional banking group Crédit Mutuel Arkéa admitted Wednesday that attackers had accessed an internal account via an unnamed third-party service provider’s platform and transferred funds to other financial institutions. Those funds, it said, could have then been potentially converted to cryptocurrency by the thieves. The day before, cryptocurrency news outlet CoinDesk reported that the attack had been detected on Monday by blockchain investigator ZachXBT , although at the time he did not identify the entity involved.
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