Scott Gordon reports:
Hackers stole $10.5 million from a Richardson real estate software company with the help of “money mules” – dozens of Americans who unwittingly accepted fraudulent money into their accounts, transferred it to those behind the scheme, and kept a cut for themselves, according to court documents.
The company, RealPage, contacted the Dallas office of the U.S. Secret Service about a computer intrusion in May 2018 after hackers, possibly from Nigeria, obtained the login credentials of an employee and accessed the company’s online financial accounts, according to a summary of the investigation included in a federal seizure document.
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