Hackers hit Iran’s Bank Mellat, leak data on millions

Hacktivist group Tapandegan on Tuesday said it had hacked Iran’s Bank Mellat, releasing personal data from more than 32 million customer accounts in what it described as a warning about systemic vulnerabilities in the country’s banking sector.

“Infiltrating Bank Mellat’s systems and navigating through them was extremely easy and unimpeded,” the group said in a post on their Telegram channel. “If we were a hostile group, we could have easily brought down and emptied the entire banking system of this wrecked country.”

Tapandegan said the disclosure was not meant to steal assets but to raise public awareness about what it called a “domino collapse” of financial institutions linked to the “regime.”

“We do not tamper with assets,” the group added. “The release of this information is merely a warning bell.”