Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Says Attackers Drained Its Own Account and May Have Cashed Out in Crypto
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The French bank says the attackers worked through its own account, not customers’, and won’t confirm the reported €118 million ($133 million) loss beyond saying the scale is about right. Crédit Mutuel Arkéa , the French banking group that onchain investigator ZachXBT named as the victim of a suspected nine-figure theft, confirmed on Nov. 4 that it was hit by an attack that let fraudulent operations go through. In a second statement the same day, the bank said the attackers may have turned the money into crypto .
Source: Unchained
