Gang Arrested on Suspicion of $300k Internet Bank Theft

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via SC Magazine Online.

[snip]

Police in the Turkish city of Izmir have arrested 17 members of a gang who
allegedly hacked into internet banking accounts and stole $300,000
(£154,000) from online users.

The men are accused of collaborating with three Russian cyber criminals,
who are believed to have provided them with the banking usernames and
passwords stolen from the computers they infected with spyware, Turkish
authorities claim.

The Russian hackers allegedly sold the banking login details of thousands
of Turkish online customers for ten per cent of the money stolen by the
gang, according to police.

The authorities closed in on the group after hundreds of people started to
complain about suspicious withdrawals from their online bank accounts in
January.

[snip]

More:
http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/633651/gang-arrested-suspicion-30
0000-internet-bank-theft/

- - ferg

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