SAN FRANCISCO: Think of it as one more reason not to write cheques. Hackers believed to be operating out of Russia have figured out a high-tech way to carry out the decidedly low-tech crime of cheque fraud.
According to a computer security company, the hackers have written at least US$9mil (RM29mil) in fake cheques against more than 1,200 legitimate accounts.
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