Arrests made in online bank heist
By CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 3:47 AM ET Aug 23, 2000 NewsWatch
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British police have arrested three people in connection with an Internet bank theft in which hundreds of thousands of pounds were stolen by hackers from an online bank, the Independent reported Wednesday.
It may be the first Internet bank robbery, the paper reported.
The hackers are believed to be part of an organized crime syndicate which allegedly took the money from Egg, the report said, without citing any sources.
Egg could not be immediately reached for comment.
Details of the case were unavailable from authorities, but the Independent report said the money was apparently not taken from individual customer accounts.
It said the arrests followed an inquiry by Britain's National Crime Squad.
"Our concern is that this is not the only attempt to infiltrate Internet banking," a squad spokesman was quoted as saying.
"The criminals got away with some money. It was substantial but not huge amounts."
Egg is the Internet banking unit of Prudential Plc, one of the UK's largest insurers. About 1 million customers use the bank's Web site, egg.com, to access such financial products as mortgages, personal loans, individual savings accounts, unit trusts, travel insurance, and mutual funds, according to Hoover's Online.
Virtuelle Bankräuber plündern Web-Bank
Die britische Internet-Bank Egg ist einem virtuellen Bankraub zum Opfer gefallen. Hacker drangen in das Netzwerk des Geldhauses ein und ergaunerten »mehrere hunderttausend Britische Pfund«.
Wie die britische Tageszeitung »The Independent« online berichtet, wurde der Cyberbankraub inzwischen durch einen Sprecher der E-Bank bestätigt. Damit dürfte die gesamte Branche in Alarm versetzt sein.
Sechs Monate dauern die Untersuchungen zu dem offensichtlich groß angelegten Raubzug schon an - gestern durchsuchte eine Spezialeinheit der britischen Polizei zusammen mit Computer- und IT-Sicherheitsexperten mehrere Wohnungen in Buckinghamshire und beschlagnahmte mehrere Computer. Inzwischen wurden mehrere Personen verhaftet. Weitere Details zu dem Coup sind der Presse bisher jedoch noch nicht bekannt
By CBS.MarketWatch.com
Last Update: 3:47 AM ET Aug 23, 2000 NewsWatch
Latest headlines
LONDON (CBS.MW) -- British police have arrested three people in connection with an Internet bank theft in which hundreds of thousands of pounds were stolen by hackers from an online bank, the Independent reported Wednesday.
It may be the first Internet bank robbery, the paper reported.
The hackers are believed to be part of an organized crime syndicate which allegedly took the money from Egg, the report said, without citing any sources.
Egg could not be immediately reached for comment.
Details of the case were unavailable from authorities, but the Independent report said the money was apparently not taken from individual customer accounts.
It said the arrests followed an inquiry by Britain's National Crime Squad.
"Our concern is that this is not the only attempt to infiltrate Internet banking," a squad spokesman was quoted as saying.
"The criminals got away with some money. It was substantial but not huge amounts."
Egg is the Internet banking unit of Prudential Plc, one of the UK's largest insurers. About 1 million customers use the bank's Web site, egg.com, to access such financial products as mortgages, personal loans, individual savings accounts, unit trusts, travel insurance, and mutual funds, according to Hoover's Online.
Virtuelle Bankräuber plündern Web-Bank
Die britische Internet-Bank Egg ist einem virtuellen Bankraub zum Opfer gefallen. Hacker drangen in das Netzwerk des Geldhauses ein und ergaunerten »mehrere hunderttausend Britische Pfund«.
Wie die britische Tageszeitung »The Independent« online berichtet, wurde der Cyberbankraub inzwischen durch einen Sprecher der E-Bank bestätigt. Damit dürfte die gesamte Branche in Alarm versetzt sein.
Sechs Monate dauern die Untersuchungen zu dem offensichtlich groß angelegten Raubzug schon an - gestern durchsuchte eine Spezialeinheit der britischen Polizei zusammen mit Computer- und IT-Sicherheitsexperten mehrere Wohnungen in Buckinghamshire und beschlagnahmte mehrere Computer. Inzwischen wurden mehrere Personen verhaftet. Weitere Details zu dem Coup sind der Presse bisher jedoch noch nicht bekannt