In 2008, a group of unidentified individuals in Kenya somehow accessed the U.S. government’s Central Contractor Registry, a password-protected database that maintains bank account information of government contractors and research institutions doing work for the government, according to the court documents filed Friday in federal court. After accessing the registry, the individuals changed bank routing information to divert the money to accounts they controlled, the documents said. In at least one case, those bank accounts were accessed from an Internet café in Kenya.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:20:21 +0000
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