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Neville Lahiru
@kriticalvodka.bsky.social
Tech Journalist | ReadMe.lk මහ එකා
Lankan in the big apple
Always fun to come across boss battles like these
@expedition33.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Celsius
April 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Anytime
April 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All Cargills had to offer was three social media posts to the public.
One would question how many more wake-up calls need to happen for regulations and accountability around data privacy to really matter?
6/n
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Sensitive and personal data of thousands, including customers, clients, and employees, are just out in the open now. Biggest data breach in LK, 2nd time a financial institution has suffered a hack of this magnitude in three years.
5/n
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Same report also says the branch has malfunctioning security alarms, CCTV, and PC networks owing to a pest problem, specifically rats. How do I know? There were CCTV screenshots in the document.
I could go on, but I think it's safe to say cybersecurity isn't a top priority.
4/n
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Curiously, there's another audit that mentions how the Wattala Cargills Bank had an unauthorized access incident in 2023. Two individuals broke into the premises in the middle of the night.
3/n
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
One audit report from 2024 points out Cargills Bank's security lapses, specifically around its lax firewall rules. There's another audit that gets into even more detail. Open USB ports, ineffective backup restoration processes, weak/lacking encryption when storing data, the list goes on.
2/n
April 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM