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Citigroup, law enforcement refute cyber heist report

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dissent

Jeremy Kirk and Robert McMillan report:

Citigroup and a federal law enforcement source on Tuesday refuted a claim that the bank’s customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced cyber heist over the summer, leaving lingering questions over details of the alleged attack.

[…]

A source within federal law enforcement who declined to be identified said the Wall Street Journal story was inaccurate and appears to have confused a known 2007 hack of Citigroup-branded automated teller machines with a long-running criminal effort to hack online banking customers and move money out of their accounts.

“They’ve screwed up so many different things,” he said. The FBI had no comment.

A second banking fraud investigator, who also asked not to be identified because of his ongoing investigations, agreed with this assessment.

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