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Federal Reserve Bank Hacker Pleads Guilty

Malaysian citizen and resident Lin Mun Poo, 32, has pleaded guilty to possessing stolen credit and debit card numbers. He faces a maximum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment. Poo admitted to visiting the country to procure stolen card numbers and PINs, which he planned to convert into cash via ATM withdrawals. Poo also admitted to compromising servers at numerous organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, via an unspecified vulnerability in its servers. Poo was arrested after arriving to the United States on a working vacation.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/federal-reserve-bank-hacker-pleads-guilty

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