Last week, the Manila Bulletin's
online edition carried a couple of stories
here and
here telling about hacking attacks affecting Citigroup and America's spy agency CIA.
In the Citigroup incident, hackers stole personal information of more than 360,000 American credit card customers, almost double the initial estimates.
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| Hacker group LuIz Security claims to have broken into the public Web site of America's spy agency. |
According to Citigroup officials, the bank discovered the cyber-attack on May 10. Apparently, hackers used the company's Account Online system to access credit cards issued by North America Citigroup in the United States.
