Ukrainian cybercrooks fleece US state- with help from citizens

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PC Invader Costs Ky. County $415,000

Cyber criminals based in Ukraine stole $415,000 from the coffers of Bullitt County, Kentucky this week. The crooks were aided by more than two dozen co-conspirators in the United States, as well as a strain of malicious software capable of defeating online security measures put in place by many banks

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/07/an_odyssey_of_fraud_part_ii.html