Re: Swedish Bank Loses $1.1M to Online Fraud

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Some sources say 'world's biggest online fraud' done by Haxdoor.

- Juha-Matti

Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote: 
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote:
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> > Is it just me, or does this seem to be getting way out of hand? :-)
>
> Biggest ever? Give me a break. Some banks lose as much as 2-3 and even 4
> millions USD A DAY during phishing attack waves.
>
>         Gadi.
>
> > 
> > It is epidemic.
> > 
> > Via The BBC.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Internet fraudsters have stolen around 8m kronor ($1.1m; £576,000) from
> > account holders at Swedish bank Nordea.
> > 
> > The theft, described by Swedish media as the world's biggest online fraud,
> > took place over three months.
> > 
> > The criminals siphoned money from customer's accounts after obtaining login
> > details using a malicious program that claimed to be anti-spam software.
> > 
> > Nordea said it had now refunded the lost money to all 250 customers
> > affected by the scam.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > More:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6279561.stm
> > 
> > - - ferg
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> > --
> > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> >  fergdawg(at)netzero.net
> >  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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