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Challenges in Reporting Vulnerabilities in Belgian Banking System

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10mo ago· 20 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses the author's experience with reporting a vulnerability in a Belgian bank's online platform through the Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process, highlighting the challenges faced due to suspicion and resistance from the bank and cybersecurity authorities.

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Hoping to get it fixed, I reported the issue to both the bank itself and the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), following the principles of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD).
Unfortunately, the experience was far from ideal.
Both the CCB and the bank denied that any vulnerability existed and seemed to assume that I must have committed a crime in order to discover what I did.
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After discovering a flaw in the login system of a major Belgian bank, I tried to report it through Belgium’s official vulnerability disclosure channels. Instead of support, I faced suspicion, bureaucracy, and resistance, from both the bank and the Centre

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