Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries critical risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Financial fraud using exposed financial profile data
- Identity theft and synthetic identity construction using government-issued IDs
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination
- SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In July 2015, the Qatar National Bank suffered a data breach which exposed 15k documents totalling 1.4GB and detailing more than 100k accounts with passwords and PINs. The incident was made public some 9 months later in April 2016 when the documents appeared publicly on a file sharing site. Analysis of the breached data suggests the attack began by exploiting a SQL injection flaw in the bank's website.
About Qatar National Bank
Qatari banking group offering retail, corporate, and investment banking services.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 89K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In July 2015, Qatar National Bank experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 89K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as bank account number, customer service records:customer feedback, date of birth, full name, gender.
Approximately 89K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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