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    Organised crime rings in Russia and the rest of the former Soviet Union are increasingly hacking into U.S. e-commerce and banking Web sites, posing an enormous economic threat.

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    Instead of a note and a gun, high-tech bank robbers use a program and an e-mail. Security firms are working overtime to ward off the mounting number of hack attacks.

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