Friday, January 19, 2007

Swedish Bank Loses $1.1M to Online Fraud - UPDATE

Via The BBC.

Internet fraudsters have stolen around 8m kronor ($1.1m; £576,000) from account holders at Swedish bank Nordea.

The theft, described by Swedish media as the world's biggest online fraud, took place over three months.

The criminals siphoned money from customer's accounts after obtaining login details using a malicious program that claimed to be anti-spam software.

Nordea said it had now refunded the lost money to all 250 customers affected by the scam.

More here.

UPDATE: 12:54 PST: Russians are now being fingered for this - more details here.

posted by Fergie @ 1/19/2007 10:30:00 AM

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