Banco Popular and Scotia Bank on St. Croix are also reporting security breaches at their institutions.

However, this is confidential information and we are not at liberty to disclose this information.

They tried calling their customers, which proved futile owning to old phone numbers on record.

Large scale security breach at British Virgin Islands, FirstBank, Banco Popular & Scotia Bank affected

As a result, they started sending out letters in emails to the clients.

This action was taken to ensure that the clients accounts were not compromised further, Alexander explained.

Instead they claimed that the customers email must have been compromised and the hacker gained his credentials from it.

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If a customer has not received a mail, he or she are most likely not affected.

St. Croixs Scotia Bank was also affected.

She said affected customers were contacted right away, adding that customer security is the banks top priority.

Lee encourages affected customers to visit the local Scotia Bank branch for further information.

The Bank of St. Croix was not affected.

source: www.techworm.net