Paris Bank Hack at Center of National Scandal
From Wired News:
Among the falsified evidence produced by the conspirators before the fraud unraveled were confidential bank records originating with the Clearstream bank in Luxembourg, which were expertly modified to make it appear that some French politicians had secretly established offshore bank accounts to receive bribes. The falsified records were then sent to investigators, with enough authentic account information left in to make them appear credible.
Deathwind • July 17, 2006 7:19 AM
Just a precision. It is not yet clear whether there was a bank hack in the first place. The guy that produced the first version of the file was an auditor of the firm.
He worked at Clearstream as member of team of external auditoris which was mandated by the Luxembourg government, in response to a book already alleging wrongdoings in Cleastream.
As an auditor, he certainly had legitimate access to confidential data during his mission without having to “hack” anything. Several sources do indicate that he got the files from his own work files during that mission.
Unless you define hacking as copying files files which you have access to, the title of the blog entry is a bit out of place.
The only “real issues” in terms of security are how to deal with people spreading information they have legitimely access to and how to spot “falsified” electronic records.