Hackers Claim Access to 42 Million Sepah Bank Records, Bank Denies Breach

A hacking group identifying itself as “Codebreakers” has claimed to have breached the data of 42 million Sepah Bank customers in Iran, including information belonging to military personnel.

The group said they provided a 72-hour window for the bank to negotiate before the data would be released.

According to posts on the group’s Telegram channel, Sepah Bank officials declined to pay any amount to protect the compromised customer information.

Reza Hamedanchi, head of Sepah Bank’s Public Relations Department, said, “This claim is fundamentally false. Sepah Bank’s systems are unhackable and impenetrable.”

Hamedanchi added that the bank’s systems operate on closed networks with no internet connection.

Following the denial, the hackers published what they claim is Hamedanchi’s personal account information from the bank.

The group has threatened to release data from 20,000 people and corporate customers due to what they describe as the bank’s indifference to the security breach.