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US banks face lawsuit to divulge hacking activities
Published in: Legalbrief Forensic
Date: Thu 27 August 2009
Category: Cybercrime
Issue No: 0179



Anti-spam company Unspam Technologies Inc has filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing banks to divulge any information they might have about hacking activities affecting their customer accounts.

Computer World reports that the 11-page complaint alleges that cyber-thieves are stealing millions of dollars from US bank accounts every month via virus infected e-mail spam. Despite the large-scale nature of such thefts, it is often very difficult to track down the perpetrators of such fraud because of the limited availability of information said Jon Praed, attorney for Unspam and founding partner of the Internet Law Group.
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