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		<title>Citigroup &#8216;hack&#8217; turns out to be simple enough for your grandmother to exploit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Falconer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<br />The hackers who recently attacked Citigroup and made of with the details of 200,000 customers used an extremely rudimentary attack that anyone could&#8217;ve pulled off, the Daily Mail reports. All...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<br /><p>The <a href="http://thenextweb.com/industry/2011/06/09/hackers-accessed-hundreds-of-thousands-of-citigroup-customer-records/">hackers who recently attacked Citigroup</a> and made of with the details of 200,000 customers used an extremely rudimentary attack that anyone could&#8217;ve pulled off, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003393/How-Citigroup-hackers-broke-door-using-banks-website.html">Daily Mail reports</a>.</p>
<p>All one needed to access other users&#8217; information was a Citigroup account and a lot of spare time. After logging into the Citigroup credit card customer area of the site, accessing the information of other customers was simply a matter of replacing the account number in the browser&#8217;s URL bar with another number.</p>
<p>In short, potential thieves just needed a few lucky guesses to take other customer&#8217;s money.</p>
<p>This explains why the attack wasn&#8217;t spotted until May: it was the equivalent of a &#8220;no forced entry&#8221; break-in, using horribly lax authentication to access parts of the site without circumventing security measures.</p>
<p>If this is what online banks deem to be a secure system, I think I&#8217;ll put my cash under my mattress and sleep with a shotgun. Even with my non-existent aiming abilities, it&#8217;ll be safer.</p>
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