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Sunday
Mar132011

Bernanke Got HACKED! - Man Arrested After Cracking Federal Reserve Bank & Stealing 400,000 CC Numbers

In consideration of the Bernanke hack threat announced earlier this morning by Hacker collective ANONYMOUS, we highlight the following vulnerability first exposed in November 2010.

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Two thoughts...

1 - Why is the Fed storing credit and debit card numbers?

2 - Are authorities sure it wasn't Jimmy Rogers and James Grant?

 

PRESS RELEASE

MALAYSIAN NATIONAL INDICTED FOR HACKING INTO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

Defendant’s Criminal Activities Extended to the National Security Sector

A four-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn today charging Lin Mun Poo, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, with hacking into a computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank and possessing more than 400,000 stolen credit and debit card numbers.1 The defendant was arrested on a criminal complaint shortly after his arrival in the United States on October 21, 2010, and has been held in custody since then. The case has been assigned to United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry.

The charges were announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Brian G. Parr, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, New York Field Office.

According to the government’s pleadings and a detention letter filed today, the defendant made a career of compromising computer servers belonging to financial institutions, defense contractors, and major corporations, among others, and selling or trading the information contained therein for exploitation by others. On October 21, 2010, the defendant traveled to the United States for the purpose of obtaining additional stolen financial account information from other hackers, which he planned to use and sell for his own profit. When he was arrested a few hours after his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Secret Service agents seized his heavily encrypted laptop computer, which contained a massive quantity of financial account data and personal identifying information that he had allegedly obtained by hacking into various computer systems. The victims included FedComp, a data processor for federal credit unions. As a result, the defendant was able to gain unauthorized access to the data of various federal credit unions, such as the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York and the Mercer County New Jersey Teachers. The defendant also allegedly compromised the computer servers of a number of major financial institutions and companies, including a computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, by exploiting a vulnerability he found therein.

The defendant’s cybercrime activities allegedly extended to the national security sector. According to the government’s pleadings and detention letter, in approximately August 2010, he hacked into the computer system of a Department of Defense contractor that provides systems management for military transport and other military operations, potentially compromising highly sensitive military logistics information.

“Cybercriminals continue to use their sophistication and skill as hackers to attack our financial and national security sectors,” stated United States Attorney Lynch. “However, as this case demonstrates, they are no match for the cutting-edge investigative techniques of the Secret Service and the Department of Justice.” Ms. Lynch praised the outstanding investigative efforts of the Secret Service and the invaluable assistance provided by the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section and the Office of International Affairs of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

“As today’s technology continues to evolve, cybercriminals use these advances and enhancements to perpetrate an expanding range of crimes,” said Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Parr. “These crimes not only affect our nation’s financial infrastructure, but are also an ongoing threat to our national security. The Secret Service is committed to deploying cutting edge investigative practices and technology in order to bring these offenders to justice.”

If convicted of the most serious offenses, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.

The government’s case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Cristina M. Posa and Melissa B. Marrus.

The Defendant:

LIN MUN POO
Age: 32

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Source - US Attorney's Office

 

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PRESS RELEASE

MALAYSIAN NATIONAL INDICTED FOR HACKING INTO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

Defendant’s Criminal Activities Extended to the National Security Sector

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2010/2010nov18.html
Nov 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
WTF! Are Progressives Seriously Defending the Federal Reserve?

http://ampedstatus.com/wtf-are-progressives-seriously-defending-the-federal-reserve
Nov 19, 2010 at 3:54 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
Exclusive: Professor who downplayed oil spill has federal government contracts

http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2010/11/exclusive-professor-who-downplayed-oil.html
Nov 19, 2010 at 3:58 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
A Slumber Party in Hell.

It’s amazing how they can do what they do and the dim-witted public, bobs their heads up and down like plastic flamingos on a drinking glass. No doubt the public goes in for other water sports as well and it must get them off because they keep standing there or coming back for more. Like someone used to say to me when I was young, “You can’t piss in my ear and make me think it’s raining”.

You’ve got troglodytes, misanthropes and sexual deviants, hired specifically for their temperament by TSA, which I think is an abbreviation for ‘Tits, slits and asses’. Then you’ve got a female senator from somewhere who had them do a ‘pat down’ on her and she didn’t mind at all. On the other hand, there is probably not one single, sexually balanced person in the whole of congress. They mostly all bend over for Israel because… because Jesus Christ must have told them to. Or is there another reason that ain’t got nothing to do with Jesus? Probably…

http://zippittydodah.blogspot.com/2010/11/slumber-party-in-hell.html
Nov 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
"Or is there another reason that ain’t got nothing to do with Jesus?"

Methinks you got the wrong Jesus. Many things have been imputed to him that ain't necessarily so. I don't believe, for example, that he crawled up on a post to get crucified for my sins. That's just crazy.

I'm a God-fearing Christian, but Jesus use your heads. Parable of the talents.
Mar 13, 2011 at 9:56 PM | Unregistered CommenterCheyenne
Since when does the Fed issue credit cards?
Mar 14, 2011 at 10:47 AM | Unregistered CommenterJessie Jones
good question jessie....
Mar 14, 2011 at 12:28 PM | Registered CommenterDailyBail
What's the charge? Intent to emulate The Skull and Bones Society and the Rothschilds? An S.E.C. indictment WITH follow-up is long past due and certainly should not be wasted on this poor little fellow. But I do admit, he sure did step in it.
Mar 14, 2011 at 3:43 PM | Unregistered CommenterHoward T. Lewis III

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