Sydney police have charged two men over what is alleged to be a multi-million dollar credit card fraud racket involving online auction giant eBay.
The Federal Government has allocated substantial funds in the 2009 Federal Budget to boost the anti-fraud, call centre and online IT infrastructure capacity of welfare agency Centrelink.
Hackers have started to target specific government personnel, as opposed to simply using broad scattergun approaches, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service warned this week.
The Queensland police have charged two people for allegedly conducting a Nigerian scam operation as well as a further four people for using credit cards with skimmed data.
Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX, and compromising the credit- and debit-card details of over 40 million people.
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