Prosecutor reports hacker arrests, scope of thefts
Posted: January 24, 2013 at 5:46 a.m.
A computer virus that spread to more than 1 million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits or losses to victims should be a “wake-up call” for banks and consumers unaware of the threat posed by Internet criminals, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
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