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As always, someone talked:

  A confidential informant tipped the 
  FBI off to the syndicate administrator's 
  email address...

Humans are the weakest link in any crime machine...

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> Humans are the weakest link in any crime machine...

And humans are the weakest link in any corporate machine, by having allowed the crime in the first place.

According to the article, "The heist begins with a phishing e-mail designed to entice a computer user to click on a link. The link launches the virus."

So if we accept the article, the hackers weren't finding deep bugs in network software or doing anything highly sophisticated, but relying on stupid employees at companies.

Wait till we have bad actor autonomous corporations. What a nightmare.

are you sure what we don't have them already? :) At least the high frequency hedge-funds seems to be pretty close to it.

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