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This was a big problem in the early days of online banking (early ‘00s). A fair number bank fraud losses were due to rogue internal employees at call centers cr
by tpurves 6y ago
This was a big problem in the early days of online banking (early ‘00s). A fair number bank fraud losses were due to rogue internal employees at call centers creating or changing then selling off online banking passwords. Ran into this when I was with a startup that launched bank to bank email money transfers in Canada around 2001. Banks cleaned up their security pretty quickly though, adding deyailed audit trails for one, and variety of other security controls around their own employee access (like double sign-offs). There is a general principle that banks have understood for as long as there have been banks... not all threat actors are outside threat actors.
- russell_h 6y agoIn this case I suspect that there is an audit trail. It will lead to a Twitter insider who was “working from home” and had remote access to the tool, but had already left the country. Banks just don’t give support reps remote access to accounts.