HSBC banking web site trojan

[Alexander Hanff]

Peter Tomlinson wrote:
> The HSBC site was indeed working again, and securely (at least 
> Kaspersky s/w thought so), within the hour.
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> Peter
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> Peter Tomlinson wrote:
>> This morning (Saturday) HSBC's Personal Banking web site has a Trojan 
>> that tries to download when you click 'Login' from the general HSBC 
>> portal page. Kaspersky reports Trojan.HTML.Agent.ce.
>>
>> I found it at 10.10. HSBC call centre didn't know at 10.30 - but the 
>> lady there found that she could not log in, went away, came back, 
>> told me that the company did know and is trying to fix it (one hour 
>> was suggested)... So why did they not just kill the site?
>>
>> HSBC Business Banking (accessed from the same portal) is OK.
>>
>> Peter 
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Yes but how many hundreds or even thousands of HSBC customers who have 
out of date anti-virus protection or indeed none at all - now have a 
trojan on their system which could have keylogged their attempts to 
access their online banking?  Have HSBC acknowledged on their site that 
there was a security breach?

Alexander