[HIB]Hacker attack circled globe, FBI says

In November 2008, with the nation transfixed by a presidential election and a collapsing economy, a group of international hackers infiltrated the computer network of a major financial services company in what authorities describe as one of the most sophisticated attacks ever concocted.Their work was furtive and impressive: Around the time Barack Obama was securing his White House win, the hackers entered RBS WorldPay servers, accessed prepaid payroll card numbers, cracked their encrypted PIN codes, raised the balances on the cards and distributed dozens of them to a team of people around the world.Then, in the span of 12 hours around Nov. 8 of that year, the group hit 2,100 ATM terminals in 280 cities spanning the world, from the U.S. to Russia to Italy to Japan. Prosecutors say they withdrew $9 million -- a haul that rivals 1,000 typical bank robberies in the U.S.

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