Swedish Bank Stops Digital Theft

A gang of Swedish criminals somehow placed some sort of device under a bank employee's desk that allowed them to take control of the person’s computer remotely. The plan was to drain millions from one account to another and they were seconds away from completing a digital bank robbery when an alert employee pulled the plug on the device, thwarting the heist.

The employee discovered the device shortly after he realized his computer had started an operation to transfer "millions" from the bank into another account, Nordenman said. "By pulling out the cable to the device, the employee managed to stop the intended transfer at the last second," he said.

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