Cybercrime: How online crooks are costing us billions of dollars
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Somewhere in St. Petersburg, Russia’s second city, a tiny start-up has struck Internet gold. Its dozen-odd employees are barely old enough to recall the demise of the Soviet Union, but industry analysts believe they’re raking in well over $100 million a year from the world’s largest banks, including Wells Fargo and Washington Mutual.
Their two-year rise might be the greatest success story of the former Eastern Bloc’s high-tech boom - if only it weren’t so illegal. But the cash may be coming from your bank account, and they could be using the computer in your den to commit their crimes.
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