I can't wait for someone to pull off a real hack like cracking a Diebold ATM
running NT4.0 wired over the internet. >:-]
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Marc Maiffret
Chief Hacking Officer
eCompany / eEye
T.949.349.9062
F.949.349.9538
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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:12 PM
| To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Subject: Egg Bank Fraud..
|
|
| Thursday, 24 August, 2000, 20:17 GMT 21:17 UK
| Egg fraud fears grow
|
| Egg has lost of tens of thousands of pounds in
| an alleged fraud at the internet bank, sources
| close to the investigation have told the BBC.
|
| Sources told the Nine O'Clock news that the
| fraud extracted "substantial amounts" of
| money.
|
| But Egg continues to insist that the fraudsters,
| who attempted to establish bogus accounts,
| only stole a nominal amount of money from the
| bank, in which Prudential has a majority stake.
|
| The news raises fresh fears about online
| security and comes as the National Crime
| Squad decides to widen its probe into fraud at
| internet banks.
|
| Multiple applications
|
| The alleged fraud was a simple deception using
| fake names and addresses on multiple
| applications for savings accounts and loans.
|
| Egg has admitted that some cards were
| issued.
|
| Egg, which has 1.1 million customers, stressed
| that no money was stolen from individual
| accounts, and that none of its computer or
| security systems had been breached.
|
| "In no way have any of our customers
| suffered," Gary Clifton-Marshall, the bank's
| operations director, said.
|
| All banks, not just internet ones, faced the
| same level of security risks in such cases, Egg
| claims.
|
| It was advanced software which can spot
| multiple applications coming from the same
| computer, and which Egg installed two months
| ago, which had led to the arrests on
| Wednesday, the bank added.
|
| On Wednesday, three men were released on
| police bail after being arrested by officers
| investigating the break-in.
|
| The men were arrested in dawn raids by
| officers of the National Crime Squad on seven
| homes around Milton Keynes following a six
| month investigation into internet fraud at Egg.
| The men were released without charge.
|
| Other banks at risk
|
| The National Crime
| Squad confirmed that
| other internet banks
| may also have been targeted.
|
| An NCS spokeswoman said the possibility of
| attacks on other online banks came to light
| after studying the arrested men's computers.
|
| There have been a string of security concerns
| about internet banking in the UK.
|
| Last month Barclays temporarily shut its
| internet banking service after a fault in new
| software allowed some users to see other
| customers' accounts.
|
| This is a very interesting story since a couple PR releases have
| stated the
| following:
| http://financialnews.netscape.com/financialnews/News.tibco?story=N
EWS.BW.20000824.2158&symbols=PRDS&view=story&company=PRDS
Might have to revise the statements until the truth is out.. :)
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