Russian Mafia Linked To Hacking Of A Usa City In Cape ?
Computer hackers breached the local authority bank accounts in November 2008 and redirected 34.000 dollars in taxpayer money to Russia in an elaborate computer hacking scheme. The scheme,involved hacking into the local authority computers to steal passwords to withdraw cash through wire transfers, there were four illegal transfers found during a 10-day period. The money was wired to banks in Florida and Georgia in the United States and at least one transfer was traced to St. Petersburg, Russia. That has law enforcement convinced that Russian organized crime is involved. Hackers used a virus known as a \”sniffer\” to snag the password and security information from the computer system, that type of virus is also called a key-stroke logger. The hacking was first discovered on Nov. 14 by the town Treasurer when he discovered the bogus transfers when he went to pay the local authorities bills for that week and didn\’t have enough money. Bank officials told him that he had authorized...