>From the Associated Press newswire via Executive News Service (GO ENS) on
CompuServe:
Czech-Computer Fraud
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP, 19 Jan 1994) -- A bank employee was sentenced
to eight years in prison for stealing nearly $1.2 million in the Czech
Republic's first major computer fraud, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Martin Janku, an employee of the Czech Savings Bank in Sokolov, transferred
money to his own account in the bank with the help of his own computer
program between September 1991 and April 1992, the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes
said.
The article continues with a few details:
o Janku arrested when he tried to withdraw money from a branch where a
teller recognized him as a programmer she'd met during training;
o sentenced to 8 years in jail;
o claims he was testing bank security;
o returned about $1 million of money he stole; rest, he says, was stolen
from his car.
[Moral: never test someone's security systems without written
authorization from the right people.]
Michel E. Kabay, Ph.D., Director of Education, National Computer Security Assn ["Mich Kabay / JINBU Corp." <75300.3232@CompuServe.COM> via risks-digest Volume 15, Issue 44]
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