CEO: Cyberattacks on Russia’s Sberbank have political reasons

ANOSINO (Moscow Region), Dec 8 (PRIME) -- Cyberattacks on Russia’s Sberbank, the country’s biggest bank, had political reasons among others, but hackers have no chance to succeed, CEO German Gref told the bank’s employees during an annual question-and-answer session on Thursday.

“Evidently, we have a political nuance in the attacks as well. We saw successful attacks in December 2014,” he said. “Who needs cyberattacks? The world has such a great deal of mad people that it’s difficult to count all deviations: these are fraudsters of all kinds. Today, 98% of crimes are committed in the cyber space. First of all, these are those following a criminal path and then those politically motivated.”

Clients panicked after the hacker attack in December 2014 and withdrew 1.3 trillion rubles from accounts.

The bank did its best to create a more reliable system to monitor such threats and introduce a system of internal cyber security, Gref said. “Cheap tricks won’t work with us, and I hope expensive either. One should not do something extraordinary, but stick to relevant instructions,” the executive said.

(63.9114 rubles – U.S. $1)

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