http://www.krebsonsecurity.com/2010/02/n-y-firm-faces-bankruptcy-from-164000-e-banking-loss/ By Brian Krebs Krebs on Security February 24th, 2010 A New York marketing firm that as recently as two weeks ago was preparing to be acquired now is facing bankruptcy from a computer virus infection that cost the company more than $164,000. Karen McCarthy, owner of Merrick, N.Y. based Little & King LLC, a small promotions company, discovered on Monday, Feb. 15 that her firm's bank account had been emptied the previous Friday. McCarthy said she immediately called her bank - Cherry Hill, N.J. based TD Bank - and learned that between Feb. 10 and Feb. 12, unknown thieves had made five wire transfers out of the account to two individuals and two companies with whom the McCarthys had never had any prior business. "She was told to go to the branch next day, and she did, and the people at the branch were very nice, apologetic, and said, "Whatever happened, we'll replace it,." Karen McCarthy's husband Craig said. "She called them up on Wednesday, and they gave her the runaround. Then she finally got to talk to someone and they said "We don't see the error on our side.." Immediately before the fraud occurred, Mrs. McCarthy found that her Windows PC would no longer boot, and that the computer complained it could not find vital operating system files. "She was using it one day and then this blue screen of death just came on her screen," said a longtime friend who was helping McCarthy triage her computer. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Thu Feb 25 2010 - 23:46:22 PST
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