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NEW YORK - A SOPHISTICATED Malaysian cyber bandit hacked into the US Federal Reserve's computers and also stole nearly half a million credit and debit card numbers, US prosecutors in New York said.
Lin Mun Poo, a Malaysian resident and citizen, was arrested on October 21 soon after entering the United States and was indicted by grand jury on Thursday, the US attorney's office in Brooklyn said.
He allegedly hacked into the Cleveland, Ohio branch of the Fed, the US central bank, and in separate attacks also stole more than 400,000 card numbers, as well as breaching the defences of numerous other systems.
Poo, who is being held in pre-trial detention, 'made a career of compromising computer servers belonging to financial institutions, defence contractors, and major corporations, among others, and selling or trading the information,' the US attorney's office said.
'Secret Service agents seized his heavily encrypted laptop computer, which contained a massive quantity of financial account data and personal identifying information that he had allegedly obtained by hacking,' the prosecutor's office said.
Among the other alleged hacking by Poo, the Secret Service said he entered a Pentagon contractor's system 'potentially compromising highly sensitive military logistics information.' -- AFP
