CIMB denies security breach after clients complain of hacking

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https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cimb-denies-security-breach-after-clients-complain-of-hacking

By Nadirah H. Rodzi
The Straits Times
December 18, 2018

Malaysia's second-largest bank CIMB yesterday denied that it suffered a 
security breach after several customers complained on social media at the 
weekend that their accounts had been hacked.

In a statement, the bank assured its customers that the site remains 
secure, and that all transactions are protected.

"The bank would like to inform that it had, over the weekend, introduced a 
few additional measures to enhance the security of its CIMB Clicks (online 
portal) transactions.

"Apart from ensuring that the system is now able to accommodate passwords 
longer than eight characters and up to 20 characters, we have also added 
the reCaptcha security measure on CIMB Clicks to ensure the user is not a 
bot," it said yesterday.

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