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Re:How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist by krisgenre on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:23AM (#11264974)
What's the point of transferring to a bank account? Wouldn't a bank account have an address associated with it? and some kind of ID proof of the account holder?
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Re:How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist by dublinben on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:42AM (#11265042)
The article mentions that the money was further laundered through casinos in the Philippines. At that point, it's pretty much gone.
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Re:How a hacker's typo helped stop a billion dollar bank heist by gnarbarian on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:28AM (#11264988)
it could be used as a proxy in a series of transfers. Maybe it was compromised.
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