Central Bank Reports Data Exposure of 8,000 BTG PIX Keys

The Central Bank (BC) reported, on Thursday (15), in Brasilia, the leakage of personal data related to 8,032 Pix keys belonging to Banco BTG Pactual clients, due to accidental malfunctions in the institution’s systems. The information was exposed between July 23 and August 5 of this year.

According to BC, no sensitive data such as passwords, transaction information, financial balances or other information subject to banking secrecy was exposed. The leaked information is of a recording nature, such as username, CPF number with mask (with some hidden numbers), relationship institution, agency, account number and type.

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People whose registration data has been leaked through or via the app will be notified. Online Banking For the institution. According to BC, no other means of communication will be used for affected users, such as messaging applications, phone calls, SMS, or Email.

BC informed that necessary measures have been taken to investigate the case in detail and the measures stipulated in the current regulations will be applied.

This year alone, there have been eight reported incidents of data leaks from financial institutions. British Columbia maintains a specific page on its website to record security incidents of this type.

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In a note, BTG Pactual said it had “identified specific queries, using CPF numbers obtained outside the bank’s system, that only allowed the display of branch and current account data linked to the CPFs in question.”

The bank also stated that it had immediately restricted access to this information.

“BTG Pactual confirms that there has been no breach of any of the bank’s systems, and that no sensitive data, such as registration data, passwords and other confidential data, has been exposed. BTG Pactual also confirms that information security is a priority and is available in case of doubts about its service channels,” the memo says.

*Text updated at 10:30pm to include BTG’s note.