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Presidential bank account hacked |
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 |
The information was initially revealed in the
‘Journal de Dimanche’ that hackers had
achieved a world first and gained access to the
head of state’s bank account and taken money
from it. A complaint was made last September
and a confidential investigation was launched
by officers of the Brigade Financière.
The Junior Minister for Consumer Affairs,
Luc Chatel, commented: “It proves that the
system of transactions on the internet is not
infallible. That troubles me.” He added,
“When you give personal information to your
bank, you do it in confidence, not so that it can
be used anyhow for marketing purposes, for
recruitment, to be revealed here and there.”
To explain their failure to find the culprits,
the police claimed that they were dealing with
highly experienced computer criminals. It
turned out that the culprits were two 30-yearold
Congolese small-time computer crooks
living in the Yvelines who had no idea whose
bank account they had raided. The President
was just one of their many victims.
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