http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=354976 November 11, 2005 TOKYO - Tokyo police have arrested a 34-year-old computer hacker Thursday on suspicion of transferring some 210,000 yen from a jewelry company's bank account to his own after illegally obtaining the firm's Internet banking identification number and password, police officials said. Kiichi Hirayama from the city of Chiba is believed to have transferred a total of some 11.4 million yen from the bank accounts of 10 companies, using software called spyware to steal data from their computers, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. © 2005 Kyodo News _________________________________________ Earn your Master's degree in Information Security ONLINE www.msia.norwich.edu/csi Study IA management practices and the latest infosec issues. Norwich University is an NSA Center of Excellence.
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