Breach reports on banks usually deal with attempts to gain passwords and drain user accounts. However, attackers can also open or hack an account to use it as a transit point for a criminal transaction. An American branch of the TD Bank was apparently used that way by an attacker who tried to trick a staffer in the financial office of security vendor Watchguard Technologies into wiring US$20,000 to the account as payment for some of the company’s products.
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