With the cyberthreats of Iranian operatives still hanging over organizations, a number of incidents affecting financial service companies, some predating the latest Iran-U.S. crisis, but all raising eyebrows, made news recently.

ZDNet reported a security researcher with the Twitter handle @vrNicknack alerted Troy Hunt, the Have I Been Pwned? search engine operator with a notice received from P&N Bank, a division of Police & Nurses Limited and operating in Western Australia. The notice warned of an information breach "of certain personal information" occurring through its customer relationship management platform as a result of online criminal activity. The cyberattack occurred on or around December 12 when the bank performed a server upgrade. Speculation is a company P&N Bank hired to provide hosting provided the entry point.