Securities, banking accounts among 97,000 compromised this year: report

A man makes stock transactions at an office in HCMC's District 1, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Around 97,000 network accounts including baking and securities accounts of high value have been compromised in Vietnam so far this year, a cyber-security firm says.

The exposure of these accounts has been recorded by the Threat Intelligence division of Viettel Cyber Security, the firm's director Nguyen Son Hai said at a recent online forum on IT leadership and information security.

He said his firm has detected 16 large-scale data leaks in Vietnam, twice as many as last year, and found that 97,000 accounts in various fields including social networks, banking and securities had being exposed.

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