Hackers steal up to $1 billion from banks

[littleroundman]

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You can read the entire original story here on YAHOOFINANCE.com (https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/hackers-steal-1-billion-banks-193522637.html)

[Doc Bunkum]

The hackers seem to limit their theft to about $10 million before moving on to another bank, part of the reason why the fraud was not detected earlier,

Right.

If my chequing account is overdrawn 5 cents they start charging me interest.

And $10 million goes missing and nobody notices?:duh:

[Blue Wolf]

I'm so sick of hackers . . .

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/anthem-says-breach-impacted-least-194441997.html

From the article:


Anthem continued to estimate that tens of millions of customer records were stolen, rather than simply accessed.

. . . the company still believes the hacked data were restricted to names, dates of birth, member ID/Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and employment information such as income data.

Oh, is that all that was stolen?

What a relief.

:scared_1:

[ribshaw]

For what its worth, checking a brokers policy on replacement of stolen funds in the event of a hack makes a lot of sense at this point. Vanguard, Ameritrade, Schwab and Fidelity have polices of replacing stolen money (or so they say right now) providing the user follows reasonable security protocols. I believe if there is no specified policy an investor would have to go to arbitration.


Then again it seems like the rate of hacks is slowing way down so no rush.

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