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Monday, February 3, 2014
FBI: A Byte Out Of History - A $10 Million Hack, 1994-Style
The FBI web site offers a piece on a computer hacking case from 1994.
It was hardly the opening salvo in a new era of virtual crime, but it was certainly a shot across the bow.
Two decades ago, a group of enterprising criminals on multiple continents—led by a young computer programmer in St. Petersburg, Russia—hacked into the electronic systems of a major U.S. bank and secretly started stealing money. No mask, no note, no gun—this was bank robbery for the technological age.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/january/byte-out-of-history-10-million-hack-1994-style/byte-out-of-history-10-million-hack-1994-style?utm_campaign=email-Daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fbi-top-stories&utm_content=294290
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