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Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Crooks Crack Check Image Sites, Steal $9 Million

Know how when you go into your online checking account you can click on checks that you've written and see the scanned image of them? Well, those pictures have to be stored somewhere, and they're not always secure. Russian crooks broke into three sites that store archival check images, stole the information, and wrote over $9 million in phony checks against over 1,200 accounts.

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Anonymous said...

Russia is a hot bed of boiler room internet scammers from pornography to ebay and a lot of the kids that come here to work for the summer are involved in escort rings drug dealings and a variety of grifts