Gabriel Sechan wrote:
> Seriously, hyperbole much? Trillions of dollars? If it was millions,
> we
> would have heard about it. Hacking is not easy. And once you get
> access to
> the machine, you still need to figure out where the data is, how to
> access
> and change it, additional layers of security, etc. Hacking a bank
> without
> inside help is next to impossible. You may be able to get personal
> info and
> use that to do a bank scam, but transfering money to another account?
> Highly unlikely.
I've heard these stories at security conferences. Many security
experts believe them to be true. The reason you won't hear about them
is that the public would lose faith in the banking system if they knew
that people were siphoning off large numbers of dollars and not being
caught
I read about a guy who was stopped on his way out of the country. He
had on his person CDs with thousands of account numbers, access codes
and other information that would have allowed nefarious individuals to
steal from unwitting customers. It was never in the papers, in fact
the name of the bank from which the data was stolen was never
disclosed. They don't want to cause a run on the bank.
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