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Police bust e-crime gang for online bank thefts
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 00:09:27 -0500 (CDT)
http://news.techworld.com/security/3234225/police-bust-e-crime-gang-for-online-bank-thefts/ By John E Dunn Techworld 04 August 10 UK and Irish police have today swooped on an international e-crime gang accused of attempting to steal money from up to 20,000 online bank accounts and credit cards in the countries. Using initial estimates from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), the unnamed five men and one woman arrested are accused of stealing 358,000 ($570,000), from 10,000 bank accounts and at least 3 million ($4.7 million) from a further 10,000 credit cards. They are also accused of attempting to steal a further 1.14 million ($1.8 million) from online bank accounts. [...] -- Visit InfoSec News! http://www.infosecnews.org/
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