Pakistan’s leading internet service provider, StormFiber, experienced a brief website hack on Wednesday. The company issued a statement confirming the incident, assuring customers that no payment data was compromised.
The statement reads,
“Foreign hackers targeted our website and altered the homepage. However, we store limited public content, and no customer payment information was accessed.”
StormFiber took immediate action, taking down the website for sanitation and patching the vulnerability. The company claims the new website, built with “latest technology and infrastructure,” is already complete and will be deployed next month.
The statement clarifies StormFiber’s payment process, emphasizing that customer data security remains a top priority.
“We utilize an external Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) for transactions,” the statement explains. “Users enter their card details directly on the IPG platform during each payment, eliminating the need for storing card information on our website.”
StormFiber acknowledges they are developing a tokenization system for secure card storage in the future. However, until then, they emphasize that re-entering card details during each transaction is the most secure method.
