Friday, July 10, 2009
Hackers steal money from Bullitt County account
Hackers steal money from Bullitt County account
Posted: Jul 01, 2009 6:14 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 01, 2009 11:01 PM CDT
Walter Sholar, Bullitt County Attorney
Melanie J. Roberts, Bullitt County Judge-Executive
Greg Schreacke, president of First Federal Savings Bank By Marisela Burgos - bio | email
Posted by Charles Gazaway - email
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The federal agents and members of the Bullitt County Fiscal Court are trying to recover thousands of dollars that went missing from a county account at First Federal Savings Bank in what appears to be a cyber crime. Limited information is being released, but a FBI agent WAVE 3 spoke with believes this crime has international ties.
"It is not like the old days when the bank got robbed and the sheriff generated up a posse and took off after the bad guys," said Walter Sholar, the Bullitt County Attorney.
Sholar said the county is working aggressively to recover what was taken from them and he is concerned about cyber crimes.
Even though $415,000 went missing, Bullitt County Judge-Executive Melanie Roberts said she is glad everyone worked in a timely manner. "I'm so thankful for the quick action of the counties leaders of Bullitt County in going to the First Savings Bank and trying to solve this problem as quickly as we can."
Greg Schreacke, president of First Federal Savings, told WAVE 3 he believes the people responsible for the crime are a sophisticated group. "They logged on as a Bullitt County user, stealing one of the user names and passwords and transferred money out of the accounts to fictitious individuals."
Although the crooks were able to log in from a remote location, Schreacke said once logged in, they were able to be a user on the Bullitt County network just like they were sitting in front of the computer. They got away with more than $400,000 from the county's account at First Federal Savings Bank, money that Sholar said is not missing, it was stolen. "Money is stolen just the same as somebody who took a .45 pistol and held it up to a teller."
$46,000 has been recovered and Schreacke said they are doing everything possible to get more of the taxpayer dollars back. "We're going to do as much as possible to get the money back and then after that, people have insurance and so forth that'll kick in."
Roberts told WAVE 3 that Bullitt County residents can rest assured of one thing - none of the county's services are going to be lost because of the theft. "No interruption will occur and we will work very hard to get this missing money back into the bank account."
Schreacke said this is an unusual crime and First Federal Savings customers should not be worried that their accounts have been compromised. The FBI is still investigating this case.
Posted: Jul 01, 2009 6:14 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 01, 2009 11:01 PM CDT
Walter Sholar, Bullitt County Attorney
Melanie J. Roberts, Bullitt County Judge-Executive
Greg Schreacke, president of First Federal Savings Bank By Marisela Burgos - bio | email
Posted by Charles Gazaway - email
LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The federal agents and members of the Bullitt County Fiscal Court are trying to recover thousands of dollars that went missing from a county account at First Federal Savings Bank in what appears to be a cyber crime. Limited information is being released, but a FBI agent WAVE 3 spoke with believes this crime has international ties.
"It is not like the old days when the bank got robbed and the sheriff generated up a posse and took off after the bad guys," said Walter Sholar, the Bullitt County Attorney.
Sholar said the county is working aggressively to recover what was taken from them and he is concerned about cyber crimes.
Even though $415,000 went missing, Bullitt County Judge-Executive Melanie Roberts said she is glad everyone worked in a timely manner. "I'm so thankful for the quick action of the counties leaders of Bullitt County in going to the First Savings Bank and trying to solve this problem as quickly as we can."
Greg Schreacke, president of First Federal Savings, told WAVE 3 he believes the people responsible for the crime are a sophisticated group. "They logged on as a Bullitt County user, stealing one of the user names and passwords and transferred money out of the accounts to fictitious individuals."
Although the crooks were able to log in from a remote location, Schreacke said once logged in, they were able to be a user on the Bullitt County network just like they were sitting in front of the computer. They got away with more than $400,000 from the county's account at First Federal Savings Bank, money that Sholar said is not missing, it was stolen. "Money is stolen just the same as somebody who took a .45 pistol and held it up to a teller."
$46,000 has been recovered and Schreacke said they are doing everything possible to get more of the taxpayer dollars back. "We're going to do as much as possible to get the money back and then after that, people have insurance and so forth that'll kick in."
Roberts told WAVE 3 that Bullitt County residents can rest assured of one thing - none of the county's services are going to be lost because of the theft. "No interruption will occur and we will work very hard to get this missing money back into the bank account."
Schreacke said this is an unusual crime and First Federal Savings customers should not be worried that their accounts have been compromised. The FBI is still investigating this case.
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