BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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possibly, but the article implies they've wrapped up their investigation. getting £135m out of 1100 individual sounds like a pretty decent haul, £123k each on average.
i dont trust any "whistle blower" that doesnt go to authorities immediatly. to sit on this sort of information for years would serve little purpose other than fraud in my mind. just to capture it and remove from the system in the first place, rather than alert the authorities, makes the motivation suspicious. thats why i raised it, because i'd be very concerned how it was lifted without detection, especially given the high value nature. if they dont protect the wealthy customers they cant care much for rest of us and while this isnt "news" within IT security circles, that certainly should be of great concern to the general public.
Without wishing to get into this side of the story. You have said this person 'could' have taken banking information from ordinary people and that he sat on the information he got.
To be fair though
He didn't take any information from ordinary people.
He did not sit on the information, he went straight to the french authorities (unless i read the OP wrong, I had just got up and was a little bleary eyed).