This Week in Myanmar Tech: Two Banks on a Leak Site, a Team in Last Place, and a Press Release Sent Before the First Match

This is Myanmar Tech Press’s weekly column. We connect recent coverage, check back on things we flagged earlier, and add the analysis a single news article doesn’t have room for. This time there were two stories, and they turned out to share a shape. In each one, the first public statement came from a party … Read more

KBZ Bank and AYA Bank Were Both Named on Ransomware Leak Sites in 2026 — Here’s What’s Actually Confirmed

Over a roughly three-month span in 2026, two of Myanmar’s largest private banks each turned up on a criminal extortion group’s leak site. In June, the group LAPSUS$ claimed to have stolen more than 120GB of data from AYA Bank and threatened to publish it unless a ransom was paid by July 8, according to … Read more