Hackers Break Into Western Australia’s Largest Bank, Personal Data Exposed

P&N Bank, which is the largest member-owned bank in Western Australia, confirmed that its CRM system was accessed by hackers following a breach that occurred on December 12, 2019.

The bank also acknowledged that personal customer information stored on this system has also been exposed, including name, address, email, phone number, customer number, age, account number, and account balance.

However, in a statement released today, P&N Bank says that passwords, driver’s license number, password number, social security number, credit card number, birthdates, and health information was  stored on a different system, therefore it wasn’t accessed following the breach.

Andrew Hadley, Chief Executive Officer of P&N Bank, says the incident happened when the bank was performing an upgrade to a server operated by a third-party hosting company.

“Upon becoming aware of the attack, we immediately shut do...