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NZ: Hawke’s Bay man used keyloggers to capture public wi-fi users’ bank logins

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dissent

Just a man and his keylogger.

A computer-hacking fraudster has been given a community-based sentence for stealing $8538 from bank accounts via the internet.

Judge Tony Adeane, in Napier District Court last Friday, sentenced Hawke’s Bay man Matthew Fraser, 25, to 200 hours of community work and ordered him to repay the money.

Fraser had downloaded software on to computers available for public use at Hastings and Napier cafes. This recorded key strokes entered on to the computers, letting him download users’ bank identification numbers and passwords.

Read more on Hawke’s’ Bay News.

Category: ID TheftMalwareNon-U.S.

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