State cyberattack poses big danger for UK banks: Bank of England


The Canary Wharf financial district is seen above a residential rooftop in London, Britain, May 7, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

LONDON: A state-backed cyberattack could secretly corrupt the records of British financial institutions over a period of months, posing a risk that banks would probably struggle to guard against on their own, a senior Bank of England policymaker said.

Banks have focused mainly on stopping service outages, but the falsification of transaction records and other data was an even bigger danger, Anil Kashyap told lawmakers on June 18.

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