A cyberattack disrupted services at four major Iranian banks, state media reported Friday. Iran's banking coordination council said no unauthorized access to customer data had occurred and no data was deleted.
A cyberattack disrupted services at four major Iranian banks on Friday morning, according to Iranian state media. Iran's banking coordination council issued a statement saying that no unauthorized access to customer information occurred and that no data had been deleted. The affected institutions were not named beyond reports that they are major banks.
The desk has been tracking reports of disruptions at Iranian banks since the early hours. At 12:36, the first series of reports emerged: Fars news agency, affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported disruptions at four banks affecting online services, ATMs, and credit cards. Subsequent posts by the desk at the same timestamp confirmed the affected institutions as Bank Melli, Tejarat, Saderat, and Export Development Bank, and cited AFP correspondents reporting that banking services had not yet been restored. Israeli media initially reported the attack at 10:14, according to a desk bulletin. The current report, from state media, adds an official denial of a data breach — a development absent from earlier coverage, which noted only that the scale of disruption and extent of any data breach were not yet known.
As The Zioneer reported on June 11, unverified reports emerged of funds vanishing from the accounts of Iranian citizens at banks including Bank Sepah and Bank Melli. Those claims remain unconfirmed. The broader context includes a series of reports of cyber and kinetic incidents in Iran over recent days, including strikes on communications and command-and-control facilities on June 10 and an Iranian internet cut on June 7, as The Zioneer has reported.
The full scope of the disruption — including the duration of outages to ATMs, payment terminals, and mobile apps — remains unconfirmed by independent sources. It is not known whether customer data was accessed or exfiltrated beyond the council's denial, and no party has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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