In December 2014, as Russia’s rouble plunged amid sliding oil prices and western sanctions over Ukraine, Sberbank, the country’s biggest lender, suffered what its chief executive Herman Gref described as a “co-ordinated attack”.
A million customers received anonymous text messages claiming
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