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HSBC ‘being attacked on a regular basis’ by on-line criminals – as boss ‘stored awake at evening’ by cyber risk

By Editorial Board Published May 20, 2025 3 Min Read
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HSBC ‘being attacked on a regular basis’ by on-line criminals – as boss ‘stored awake at evening’ by cyber risk

The boss of one of many UK’s largest banks says it’s being attacked “all the time” by on-line criminals and he’s stored up at evening by cyber threats.

“It does keep me awake,” HSBC UK chief government Ian Stuart advised the Treasury Committee of MPs.

“Because we can be attacked and we are being attacked all the time.”

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Mr Stuart stated banks have been spending “enormous” sums of a whole bunch of tens of millions of kilos on IT methods – the most important expense of their companies.

“Cybersecurity is now very much at the top of our agenda,” he added.

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Ian Stuart, chief government of HSBC UK, showing earlier than the Treasury Committee. Pic: PA

Issues have been additionally highlighted by Lloyds Financial institution chief government Charlie Nunn, who stated monetary fraud will worsen if banks can’t intervene to stop it and social media and telecoms firms aren’t incentivised to halt it.

Mr Nunn stated the UK “has become the home of fraud”, including that the variety of victims is “pretty disturbing” and “individual cases are harrowing”.

Main excessive road companies, together with M&S and the Co-op, have been hit by cyber assaults in latest weeks and had their operations impacted.

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Cybersecurity threats, nevertheless, weren’t behind the several-day outage at Barclays on the finish of January, its UK chief government Vim Maru stated.

He added: “We have discovered the teachings. We’re performing on the teachings, each work executed internally, but additionally with assist from third events as nicely.

Account holders throughout the UK have suffered a spate of IT glitches from completely different banks round paydays this yr.

Tens of tens of millions of kilos on IT have been spent and buyer glitches have fallen, Mr Maru stated.

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He added that the issue at Barclays was a software program situation, saying: “We put a fix in place that means that we won’t have a recurrence.”

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