Ohh yeah! Potential Microsoft Windows security breaches? What? I don’t believe it.

Citibank had a huge ATM breach where hackers were able to steal the closely-guarded PIN numbers of customers’ ATM cards. The breach reportedly allowed the hackers to net millions of dollars from the victims. Attacks on the ATM network have been increasingly lately, and surprisingly not all banking systems use a high level of encryption on their PINs. And more and more of the systems are being run on flavors of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, never known to be the most secure thing in the computing world.

But not to worry, I’m sure the banks will find out some way of recovering the lost money. Likely through more fees for everyone else, but that’s just the way things go.


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