Wednesday, 18. January 2012
Topic: SECURITY - on January 18, 2012 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Hackers Steal $6.7M In Bank Cyber Heist
A perfectly planned and coordinated bank robbery was executed during the first three days of the new year in Johannesburg, and left the targeted South African Postbank — part of the nation's Post Office service — with a loss of some $6.7 million. The cyber gang behind the heist was obviously very well informed about the post office's IT systems, and began preparing the ground for the heist a few months before, by opening accounts in post offices across the country and compromising an employee computer in the Rustenburg Post Office
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