Sri Lanka, April 3 -- Cargills Bank yesterday said its core operations remain fully secure and functional, despite a cybersecurity incident that occurred last month.

In a disclosure to the Colombo Stock Exchange late on Monday, the bank assured that all banking services continue to operate normally and that the customers can conduct transactions with confidence.

Last month, an unauthorised party claimed to have accessed and published certain data belonging to the bank. An ongoing investigation has since confirmed that some of the bank's information is among the exposed data.

"Upon detection of the incident, the bank engaged a team of leading international cybersecurity specialists to support our response. Their mandate includes inciden...