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30/07/2007
MOSCOW - July 30 (RIA Novosti) - Two un-named hackers from the Russian
city of Togliatti on the Volga River stole over $500,000 over a period
of two years from bank accounts in Turkey, Interior Ministry
investigators said Monday.
The two men purchased a dedicated server with remote access to a desktop
hosted in a U.S. data center, and a special application capable of
infecting banking computers in Turkey with a Trojan virus to obtain
information on bank accounts, investigators said. One of the hackers has
been arrested, and the other is on a federal wanted list.
After processing the obtained information, the hackers transferred money
to accounts of Turkish collaborators, who in turn cashed the money in
and later transferred it to Togliatti via Western Union.
The Interior Ministry's investigation committee said there were a total
of 265 registered money transfers totaling $508,000 between February
2005 and April 2007.
One of the men, arrested in June this year on fraud charges, is being
held in a pre-trial detention center in the Samara Region.
Received on Tue Jul 31 00:23:05 2007