Hacker Leaks Customer Data After a United Arab Emirates Bank Fails to Pay Ransom

A hacker who broke into a large bank in the United Arab Emirates made good on his threat to release customer data after the bank refused to pay a bitcoin ransom worth about $3 million.

The hacker, who calls himself Hacker Buba, breached the network of a bank in Sharjah last month reportedly identified as Invest Bank, and began releasing customer account and transaction records via Twitter.