http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article5563001.ece By David Brown The Times January 22, 2009 An international gang plotted to steal £229 million from customers' accounts at a leading bank by hacking into computers, a court was told yesterday. A security supervisor smuggled two Belgian computer hackers into the London offices of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation by pretending that they were friends who had arrived for a game of cards. The hackers installed spy software that recorded employees' names and passwords at the bank's European headquarters in the heart of the City, Snaresbrook Crown Court was told. They visited the offices several times to retrieve the security information before returning one weekend to transfer the money to accounts controlled by accomplices in Spain, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, it was alleged. When Sumitomo Banking staff arrived at work on Monday morning, they found that their computers had been tampered with, the jury was told. The scheme was foiled because the hackers failed to fill in one of the fields in the Swift system used to make money transfers. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books & More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Jan 21 2009 - 23:10:42 PST
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