Central Bank of Armenia claims servers were not hacked

YEREVAN, November 12. /ARKA/. The Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) refuted on Tuesday reports about its servers being hacked.

Earlier Armenian cyber security expert Samvel Martirosyan reported that Azerbaijani hackers published 2.4GB of CBA’s archive data after hacking the bank’s online licensing website on September 11. The expert warned that the data is posted on hackers’ website and may contain viruses.

The Central Bank says in its statement its servers have reliable protection, no secret information is hacked and break-in attempts are prevented.

The regulator also says the archive published on the Internet contains outdated and often false data.

The Central Bank specialists are currently looking into the source of the published archive, says the report. –0–

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