How hackers struck super fund customers while they slept

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The cyberattack that has robbed Australians of money from superannuation accounts began with criminals attempting to access accounts in the dead of night.

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login The cyberattack that has robbed an unknown number of Australians of hundreds of thousands of dollars from their superannuation accounts began about a month ago, when the criminals tried to access millions of individual accounts armed with credentials that would let them in to a small percentage of them. The attempts happened mostly in the dead of night, and relied on a subset of a branch of cyberattacks called brute force attacks, which is known as credential stuffing.

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