From LA Times:
A cyber-thief was able to take $450,000 from the city of Carson’s general fund as part of an elaborate scheme that officials said raises questions about the security of municipal coffers.
Authorities said the hacker was somehow able to mimic the computer strokes made by Carson’s top financial officer. Each time Treasurer Karen Avilla logged into her laptop computer in the morning, someone was looking–virtually–over her shoulder, watching every keystroke. Every entry of a password. Everything.
Armed with a spyware program, the thieves tracked Avilla’s moves on her laptop and obtained bank passwords. They wired $90,000 to a “Diego Smith” in North Carolina. One day later, on May 24, the thieves got bolder as they wired $358,000 from the city’s bank account to a bank in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Tags: Hacker, Keylogger, Carson City, Data Theft
