Authorities have identified “two or more” individuals behind the hack of BDO Unibank’s online security system which led to unauthorized fund transfers that affected about 700 depositors, a Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas official said.
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Director Melchor Plabasan of BSP’s Technology Risk and Innovation Supervision Department told One News’ The Chiefs Tuesday (December 14) that the suspects allegedly opened bank accounts online under the Aboitiz-owned UnionBank days before BDO’s online security system was hacked.
Plabasan said the Sy-owned lender and UnionBank are expected to file charges against the masterminds of the hacking incident.
“The real persons behind Mark Nagoyo have been identified, so I think BDO and the other institution, Union Bank, will definitely file charges if these persons allowed their accounts to be used for these fraudulent activities,” he said.
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Plabasan said initial investigation results showed that the scam is not an inside job.
“So far, based on what we saw, individual account holders… I think they are not bank employees and they just opened their accounts recently. Some of them opened last October,” the BSP official said.
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Funds stolen from affected BDO clients ranged from P30,000 to P50,000. They were transferred to Nagoyo’s UnionBank accounts in real time via Instapay.
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BDO has blamed the security breach on a 10-year-old web service that was scheduled to be phased out next year.
The BSP is conducting an investigation to determine if there were lapses in BDO or UnionBank’s risk protocols.
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