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February 2nd, 2012, 08:05 GMT · By Eduard Kovacs

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Central Bank of Bahrain Hacked by SEPO

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After moving his operations out of Africa, the grey hat hacker known as SEPO moved his operations to the Middle East, where just like in Africa, he targets banks and other major institutions that are either considered corrupt or simply vulnerable.

His last operation targeted the Central Bank of Bahrain, a financial institution established in 1973 as the Bahrain Monetary Agency, currently among the country’s most important banks.

As a result of the breach, SEPO managed to obtain information regarding their servers, but he also gained access to some of their databases, extracting data such as email addresses, names, and password hashes.

SEPO managed to breach a lot of important websites, a few worth mentioning are the ones that belong to the national diamond company of Angola, Suzuki Germany, ProCredit Bank and the Brno Airport from the Czech Republic.

Earlier this week we’ve had a great interview with SEPO as part of our series called Hackers around the world. Stay tuned to learn more about his hacks and his very interesting life.
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Comment #1 by: Siri on 02 Feb 2012, 14:27 UTC reply to this comment

Attempt to hack into CBB website was unsuccessful

Comment #1.1 by: Kim on 02 Feb 2012, 16:38 GMT

Website was up & running no denial of services no content change observed.
It's was footprints attempts


Comment #2 by: Bahraini on 03 Feb 2012, 07:02 UTC reply to this comment

This is unsuccessful hack. All what he could get is users full name and email address of three users who update the website.

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