From This artical.
Hacker cleans out bank accounts
A HACKER is targeting clients of South Africa's largest bank and has managed to steal hundreds of thousands of rand.
Police and bank officials say it appears the perpetrator used "spyware" to gain access to the personal computers of the victims, and, having found out their Internet banking information, had transferred money out of their accounts.
One official said:
Absa refused to refer to the culprit as a "hacker" and would only refer to the crime as "identity fraud" committed by a person who had gained access to clients' accounts through their own personal computers using the Internet.
And the method:
"It is a new trend called spyware. This has got nothing to do with the bank. It records keystrokes, like your account and PIN number, and then it e-mails the information to a Hotmail mailbox," he said.
Spyware and keyloggers are a new trend?? Sounds more like some people are not following basic precautions.
Peasy said it appeared the fraudster had sent unsuspecting clients an e-mail, which, when it was opened, installed software that recorded information.
As in that old song--"When, When, Will they ever learn."