Qatar National Bank

What Happened

In July 2015, the Qatar National Bank suffered a data breach which exposed 15k documents totalling 1.4GB and detailing more than 100k accounts with passwords and PINs. The incident was made public some 9 months later in April 2016 when the documents appeared publicly on a file sharing site. Analysis of the breached data suggests the attack began by exploiting a SQL injection flaw in the bank's website.

Compromised Data

Bank account numbers
Customer feedback
Dates of birth
Financial transactions
Genders
Geographic locations
Government issued IDs
IP addresses
Marital statuses
Names
Passwords
Phone numbers
Physical addresses
PINs
Security questions and answers
Spoken languages

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    88.7 thousand

  • Breach Occurred:

    July 2015

  • Added to HIBP:

    1 May 2016

Recommended Actions

Change Your Password

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Check Other Accounts

If you used the same password elsewhere, change those too.

Monitor for Suspicious Activity

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