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Hackers Steal OmniAmerican Bank Account Data
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:00:20 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Star-Telegram.com. [snip] An international gang of cyber criminals hacked into OmniAmerican Bank's records, the bank's president disclosed Wednesday. They stole scores of account numbers, created new PINs, fabricated debit cards, then withdrew cash from ATMs in Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, as well as in Britain, Canada and New York. "It was a pretty sophisticated scheme," said Tim Carter, president of the Fort Worth-based bank. The amount stolen is not yet known, he said, describing it only as "minimal." No depositors will lose money, he said. Fewer than 100 accounts, some of them dormant, were compromised, all with a daily withdrawal limit of less than $1,000, he said. After discovering the fraudulent activity Friday afternoon, OmniAmerican placed temporary limits on some ATM and debit-card transactions and suspended some electronic banking services, which were restored Sunday, Carter said. At no time were customer deposits at risk, he stressed. "We reduced by half the dollar amount that could be withdrawn and limited [access] to Texas. We cut out anything outside Texas," Carter said. The unauthorized withdrawals were stopped Friday, and bank employees worked over the weekend to deal with the damage, he said. The bank learned of the breach from customers inquiring about unusual activity in their accounts, from internal monitoring and from a law-enforcement agency, which Carter declined to name. [snip] More: http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/429367.html Hat-tip: Pogo Was Right - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHmQpvq1pz9mNUZTMRAljLAKDuXzcfgMcawOQOwFLwJ8UrUbm5HACgsKwn O2lTwaWQbYfgEO6UHVsGn6A= =J7aH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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