LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest domestic lender Lloyds said on Thursday it was on “heightened alert” for cyberattacks from Russia as the crisis in Ukraine has worsened.
“We’ve been on heightened alert… internally around our cyber risk controls and we’ve been focused on this for quite a while,” Lloyds CEO Charlie Nunn told reporters after the bank’s full-year results.
Preparation for potential cyberattacks was discussed in a meeting between the government and banking industry leaders about Russia on Wednesday, Nunn added.
Russian forces fired missiles at several cities in Ukraine and landed troops on its coast on Thursday.
(Reporting by Iain Withers, editing by Lawrence White)
