A Belgian investigating judge is an investigation into attacks on internetbankierende bank customers started. Reason is a ‘worrying increase’ in the number of attacks. The number of successful attacks is small.
The Belgian federal public prosecutor’s office sets a “worrying increase” of the attacks on online banking fixed, writes The Standard. The Brussels examining magistrate Michel Claise has therefore started a study of the digital attacks on internetbankierende customers.
The bank BNP Paribas Fortis stood at the base of the research; that company filed a complaint about the increased number of attempts by cybercriminals to bank customers money. The federal public prosecutor’s office has information from other banks are collected, so the research focused on the whole of the Belgian banking sector focuses.
According to the federation of Belgian financial institutions are there after the complaint of BNP no new cases of fraud occurred. The number of successful fraud cases, according to the organization limited. In 2011, there would be but 77 times successful fraud have been committed. That is remarkably little; in the Netherlands, the number of victims over the first half of 2011, 2418.