That's kind of a scary prospect, isn't it, to have your house stolen and sold once your email was hacked? According to Slashdot, two Nigeria-based hackers managed to steal an Australian man's credentials, and sold two of his houses through his real estate agent, a total of about $500,000. The man rushed back home and just managed to prevent the sale of his second home from being finalized. The cash from the sales were funneled into Chinese bank accounts.
How did they manage to do this? That is an amazingly complex scam to pull off. If they managed to pull it off, what else can be hacked from some mundane thing of ours? A bank account, all funneled into China? Or perhaps all of your paychecks are now transferred to some odd account not yours? And this brings up the issue of security too. Just how secure do you now have to make everything?
Something to think about.
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