Hacking: Crédit Mutuel victim of a cyberattack which enabled “fraudulent operations”

A new cyberattack, with potentially significant consequences. The Crédit Mutuel Arkéa bank, based in Brittany, declared this Wednesday that it had been the victim of a computer attack which allowed “fraudulent transactions to be carried out”, an incident “now under control”, she added.

The bank did not confirm the amount of the embezzlement of 133 million dollars (118 million euros) cited by the newspaper Le Télégramme. Arkéa, however, indicates to its customers that this incident “has no financial consequences for them”.