Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
FBI agents, with the help of Facebook, cracked one of the largest cybercrime cases in history, arresting 10 people accused of infecting computers with malicious software and then stealing their bank and other personal information worth $850 million, Reuters reports.
Agents were assisted by Facebook’s security team after users of the social networking giant were victimized by the theft, Reuters wrote.
Its “security systems were able to detect affected accounts and provide tools to remove these threats,” the FBI told Reuters.
The 10 people arrested came from Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.
