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U.S. indicts foreigners for hacking RBS WorldPay

Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:22am EST

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WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. grand jury indicted several foreigners on charges that they hacked a computer network used by the credit card processing company RBS WorldPay and stole more than $9 million, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

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The group, which included people from Estonia, Russia and Moldova, was accused of compromising the data encryption used by RBS WorldPay, which is part of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L), gaining access to some accounts, and withdrawing the money from automated machines around the world, the government said. (Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky, editing by Will Dunham)



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