Citigroup Denies Media Report of Massive Cyberattack, Tens of Millions in Lost Dollars

Jan. 4, 2010, 5:00 AM UTC

Global financial services company Citigroup Dec. 22 denied reports that the company had been the target of a massive cyberattack this year that netted crime syndicates in Eastern Europe tens of millions of dollars from Citibank accounts.

Company senior communications officer Robert Julavits issued a tersely worded response to what Julavits’s e-mail referred to as “an inaccurate story today by the Wall Street Journal” on Citi’s cybersecurity.

The two-paragraph statement said that “Allegations … of a breach of Citi systems and associated losses are false. Any allegation that the FBI is working on a case at Citigroup involving a ...

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