"Hackers Are Threatening to Leak World-Check, a Huge Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist"
"Hackers Are Threatening to Leak World-Check, a Huge Sanctions and Financial Crimes Watchlist"
A financially motivated criminal hacking group that calls itself "GhostR" claims to have stolen a confidential database containing millions of records companies use to screen potential customers for links to sanctions and financial crime. The hackers claimed they stole 5.3 million records from the World-Check screening database in March and are threatening to release the data online.