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Citigroup gets computer fraud claim tossed in email hack case

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Dissent

Sara Merken reports:

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has tossed a claim by a small law firm accusing Citigroup Inc of aiding and abetting a hacker who posed as its managing partner and stole a $60,000 payment that should have gone to the firm in violation of a federal computer fraud law.

Read more on Reuters.


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