Brazil cuffs 85 in online bank hack dragnet
Operation Pegasus
Posted in Enterprise Security, 29th August 2005 09:54 GMT
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In brief Brazilian federal police last week cuffed 85 people across seven states suspected of hacking online bank accounts and netting $33m, Reuters reports.
The arrests were the culmination of a four-month investigation, codenamed "Operation Pegasus", which generated 105 arrest warrants. A total of 410 officers took part in the swoop. ®

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