Posted on 09/30/2010 12:01:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
NEW YORK — Computer hackers in eastern Europe who used computer viruses to steal usernames and passwords teamed up with associates who opened bank accounts in the U.S. to snatch at least $3 million from American bank accounts, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges against more than 60 people.
Some of the defendants were charged in court papers unsealed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with conspiracy to commit bank fraud for the invasion of dozens of victims' accounts, according to federal and state prosecutors in New York.
In a series of criminal complaints filed in the case, the FBI said the scheme originated with information gleaned from computers through the use of a virus that could access the bank accounts of small and mid-sized businesses and municipal entities in the U.S.
The FBI said the program was known as an Internet banking Trojan, which can steal computer access data including usernames and passwords for bank accounts, email accounts and social-networking websites.
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H/T to the Drudge Report.
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