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Jenna McLaughlin

Ukrainian hackers and intel officers partner up in apparent hack of a top Russian bank

People stand in line to withdraw money from an ATM of Alfa Bank in Moscow last year. (Victor Berzkin/AP)

Two Ukrainian hacktivist groups are claiming to have broken into Russia's largest private bank, Alfa-Bank.

In a blog post last week, the hackers from groups called KibOrg and NLB shared screenshots of what appears to be an internal database belonging to Alfa-Bank, as well as personal details of several Russian individuals as "confirmation" of the breach. Within the database, the hackers say there are over 30 million records including names, birthdates, account numbers and phone numbers of Russian customers.

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