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follow-up: Four Indicted in RBS WorldPay Hack - Charged With Cracking PINs
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:06:32 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/rbs-worldpay/ Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company, RBS WorldPay, the payment processing arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, Russia; Oleg Covelin, 28, of Chisinau, Moldova; and a fourth person identified only as "Hacker 3" were indicted by a federal grand jury in what.s being described as one of the "most sophisticated and organized computer fraud attack ever conducted." The hack involved reverse-engineering PINs for payroll debit card accounts and netted the efficient thieves more than $9 million in less than 12 hours. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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