The Payoneer digital wallet was hacked and its users ended up being victims of a cyber attack. The same victims came out to ask for help.
Argentine users of the digital wallet Payoneer were victims of a serious company hack. In cyber attack, They emptied the funds in dollars.
After realizing what had happened, different users began to report through Reddit and X (ex Twitter) that they had been victims of hacking on their virtual wallets from Payoneer. In addition, they indicated that they had emptied their dollar accounts.
Hacking of the digital wallet: the silence of the company and the word of Movistar
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After the cyber attack, the company, which on its official website maintains that “whether it is borderless payments or limitless growth, gives any business, in any market, the technology, connections and trust to participate and succeed in the new global economy”, He has not declared anything regarding what happened.
In any case, even choosing silence and without issuing any official statement, it emerged that they had been lost. Thousands of dollars in the affected accounts. Furthermore, following what happened, the company provided a series of security instructions to its customers and promised them that it would give them more answers in the coming days.
Digital wallet hacking: the word of Movistar
Regarding how they managed to enter Payoneer accounts, it is what generated the most indignation on users. The truth is that everything would have been through sending fraudulent SMS received by those who were affected, some of them clients of Movistar.
For this reason, the cell phone company issued a statement in which it assured that the contents of the messages are beyond their responsibilityavoiding any type of legal problem.
Initially, the text published by Movistar indicated that the company had become aware of what happened through publications on social networks and learned that the company’s clients “had been scammed through the receipt of SMS that, through maneuvers of smishingthey captured his credentials from the aforementioned platform.”
In any case, later, they added: “In this sense, we inform that Movistar is not responsible for the messages (or its content) that third parties use their network.” “Notwithstanding the above, we have taken preventive measures with those numbers from which some clients have reported having received such communications,” they closed.
