http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=26446
Finextra.com
15 September 2014
Nigerian police are on the hunt for an IT staffer at Skye Bank who hacked
into the bank's systems and transferred $40 million to a raft of bogus
accounts before going on the run.
Thirty-eight year old Isoko resident Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou is alleged to
have conspired with a criminal gang to access the bank's computer system
and inflate the balances of various accounts.
Uyoyou, who worked in the information and communication technology
department of Skye Bank, allegedly provided the gang with physical access
to the bank's computer servers under the pretext of carrying out weekend
maintenance.
The gang were in the process of withdrawing the cash when the heist was
rumbled. So far, no arrests have been made and the bank has yet to issue
any statement as to how much cash was lost to the fraud.
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