2011-05-16

Hackers cash in US $ 2 million bank customer data transferred to Hong Kong

Zhongxinwang, May 12, according to the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po reported, United States Iowa 3 banks was recently hackers between, they email cash in banks in customer information, then posing as customers call the bank remittance, meeting us $ 2 million payment more than once. Report, which was meeting to all Hong Kong and similar modus operandi are more on the rise.

One of the Bank name to Metabank cheated, located in Iowa storm Lake, which in December last year on the results of a public event. Two injured Bank name is not made public. As to the hacker’s identity, expert means they can be from anywhere in the world.

Report, swindlers zhuanxiang Bank big customers from becoming victims, as they more remittances abroad, not suspicion. After the target, hackers will send e-mail has an attachment to their customers open will be caught, inadvertently download software with a malicious program. When customers access to its bank account, the software will record their entry’s name, password, and this authentication problem should only customer knows the answer.

After obtaining the information, hackers pose as the victim to call the Bank, claiming that because the phone is broken, you want the call transferred to a second phone to prevent them from meeting when a large sum, Bank call client verification. The last step, hackers will pretend to this group of customers requesting bank account money sinks off. It was reported that Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) is investigating the events, with Bank security experts described the modus operandi clever, and the event is only the iceberg. (Zhongxinwang financial channel)

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