An IT expert Michael Nunn stated that a computer system at Orange's EFTPOS might've been hijacked when a PC-Trojan infected the shop's accounting software/EFTPOS, so published Central Western Daily dated February 6, 2012.
Nunn explained that Trojans were one kind of virus that let a hacker control or steal data from the infected computer, with the most ordinary ones created particularly for stealing credit card and other personal details, including those transmitted through the EFTPOS channel. Thereafter, the data was transmitted to the remote hacker's computer over the Internet, he added.
Lately, cyber-criminals focused attack on Orange residents so they could cash in on the EFTPOS fraud scheme wherein funds were filched from innumerable accounts of local consumers through fake debit/credit cards. Subsequently, all of the financial account particulars were transmitted and included into "empty" magnetic cards as also utilized for withdrawing funds from the victimized users' financial accounts via ATMs.
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