Amitabha Bhattasali of BBC News:
"An Indian teacher got the shock of his life when he checked his bank account online and found 490bn rupees ($9.8bn).
Parijat Saha expected his balance to be $200 and could not believe his eyes - but a check at an ATM confirmed his billionaire status, on paper at least."
During a new Security/Privacy analysis audit, 65% of the major US banks have scored the poorest rankings. This audit was performed by non-profit Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Alliance which anonymously audited over one thousand different websites. Followed by a ranking on their security and privacy practices. Of course, none of the sites that were investigated knew that such a test would be performed on their websites and it was also performed anonymously.
Hacking and hackers develop and get more skilled faster than soft upgrades....or antiviruses
That's what's scary. And I'm not so sure that it's greater skill in nefarious hands that is leading the world to cyber-ruin. I think it's more the advantage of surprise. The hacker knows who he's going to attack, and when. The victim has no idea until it happens.
thats actually scary.
i think all financial services should have a separate department dedicated to protecting their systems.
Fraudsters and thieves are becoming cleverer at stealing our data and cash, so how should we increase security without making banking services annoyingly cumbersome?
An unknown person -- possibly a white hat hacker -- gained access to some of the servers that cybercriminals use to distribute the Dridex online banking Trojan and replaced the malware with an installer for Avira Free Antivirus.
I would been withdrawing like ****, exchange the money for a different currency and then left the country.
Why on earth did he 'ring' the bank ? He should have rang his wife to pack up ! #sad
And why do such errors happen to such good people only ? :(
Print account receipt. Drop it in front of hot indian babes. Let them pick it up and peek at the balance. PROFIT!
I was saddened to read that his monthly income is 750 USD. Teachers deserve more.