Bank: Rogue trader hacked computers

January 27, 2008 – 3:52 pm

The trader accused of making fraudulent transactions that cost Societe Generale €4.9 billion ($7.2 billion) hacked computers and used “several techniques of fraud,” the French banking giant has said.


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