Tesco Bank today froze all online transactions as an emergency measure after 20,000 people had as much as £2,000 stolen from accounts in a cyber attack that still may not be over. Chief executive Benny Higgins has apologised abd revealed that 40,000 accounts were hacked into and 20,000 had cash stolen – but he refused to say how much in total had been taken. All online transactions will be stopped today to keep the situation ‘under full control’, he said.
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Original source: The Mail Online