follow-up: Four Indicted in RBS WorldPay Hack - Charged With Cracking PINs

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

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.

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