BML assures its internet banking is secure

Bank of Maldives (BML) has assured that its internet banking service is secure.

This came after a message was circulated today, allegedly by the National Centre for Information Technology (NCIT), asking users not to using BML internet banking service.

The message says that NCIT has advised users not to use BML e-banking service today, as attackers can access customers’ credit card numbers, user names and passwords through a bug called heartbleed.

An official of BML told Sun Online that the message is baseless, and was not issued by NCIT.

“The OpenSSL issue has been faced around the world. This includes popular websites. We would like to assure BML customers that our internet banking website is secure,” he said.

He said that BML internet banking service was suspended for 30 minutes after service providers worldwide faced the problem of heartbleed, but it has been resumed after investigation.

“BML is one of the first companies to solve this problem and start providing web link services,” he said.

The heartbleed bug, targeted at websites that use the open source software OpenSSL, enables attackers to access sensitive data such as usernames and passwords stored on website databases. Security firms have said that several such information on Yahoo database have been compromised.

The following link can be used to test the security of OpenSSL websites.

http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/