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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 9, 2011 at 1:27 PM ET

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NEW YORK (AP) — A crew of Internet bandits devised an international scheme to hijack more than 4 million computers worldwide so that users visiting Netflix, the Internal Revenue Service and other popular websites would be rerouted to sites that generated at least $14 million in fraudulent profits, an indictment unsealed in New York alleged Wednesday.

The indictment says 500,000 computers in the United States were infected,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/11/09/business/AP-US-Cyber-Fraud.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss




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