Malasian Hacker allowed to break into Fed Res, Def Contractors, Int'l Banks

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http://federalnewsradio.com/?nid=15&sid=2124738

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Malaysian hacker Lin Mun Poo nabbed in Brooklyn after cracking into Fed Reserve network
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/19/2010-11-19_hacker_nabbed_after_cracking_into_fed_reserve_network.html
BY John Marzulli  DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER  Friday, November 19th 2010, 4:00 AM

A Malaysian computer expert hacked into the Federal Reserve's network, and when he was arrested was found with more than 400,000 credit card numbers on him, officials said. Agents said they nabbed Lin Mun Poo in a Brooklyn diner selling some of the hot card numbers for $1,000 - hours after he touched down at Kennedy Airport last month. He is in custody pending a court appearance. Poo, 32, found a security vulnerability at a Fed bank in Cleveland, according to court papers, and caused major damage. He was hit with four counts, including fraud and ID theft, and faces 10 years if convicted. The stolen card numbers were found on his encrypted laptop after he was nabbed, and officials said Poo had come to the U.S. to get more stolen cards and PINs and steal from ATMs. Poo has also confessed to breaking into networks of several international banks and a major Defense contractor, the complaint states. "Cybercriminals continue to use their sophistication and skill as hackers to attack our financial and national security sectors," said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.

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"...selling some of the hot card numbers for $1,000...Poo has also confessed to breaking into networks of several international banks and a major Defense contractor"

bwaaaaaaaaahahahaaha

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over 100,000 articles all hit the web in the last hour.

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....could this be staged....derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

what did the hacker find out? that the entire Federal Reserve is a complete Ponzi scheme? Anything short of that and this is LIHOP or MIHIP

[Anti_Illuminati]

Malaysian hacker Lin Mun Poo nabbed in Brooklyn after cracking into Fed Reserve network
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/19/2010-11-19_hacker_nabbed_after_cracking_into_fed_reserve_network.html
BY John Marzulli  DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER  Friday, November 19th 2010, 4:00 AM

A Malaysian computer expert hacked into the Federal Reserve's network, and when he was arrested was found with more than 400,000 credit card numbers on him, officials said. Agents said they nabbed Lin Mun Poo in a Brooklyn diner selling some of the hot card numbers for $1,000 - hours after he touched down at Kennedy Airport last month. He is in custody pending a court appearance. Poo, 32, found a security vulnerability at a Fed bank in Cleveland, according to court papers, and caused major damage. He was hit with four counts, including fraud and ID theft, and faces 10 years if convicted. The stolen card numbers were found on his encrypted laptop after he was nabbed, and officials said Poo had come to the U.S. to get more stolen cards and PINs and steal from ATMs. Poo has also confessed to breaking into networks of several international banks and a major Defense contractor, the complaint states. "Cybercriminals continue to use their sophistication and skill as hackers to attack our financial and national security sectors," said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.

Conspiracy Nation—Vol. 5  Num. 73
(“Quid coniuratio est?”)

EXPLOSIVE NEW FACTS REVEALED IN MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF FOSTER
[The Spotlight, 08/07/95]
[...continued...]
TOM VALENTINE:
In other words the United States was spying on banks around the world to track people’s money?

JAMES NORMAN:
Actually, it was an allied government effort, which also included Israel. It was originally designed as an anti-terrorist effort.  The program was nicknamed “Follow the Money.”

Senior people from the Reagan years who were involved in designing and crafting this program have confirmed that there was such a program underway and that massive amounts of data were collected. However, because of the highly sensitive security nature of this, they can’t say quite how it was done, but we have figured out that one of the companies involved in implementing the software system (and probably the hardware) was a company in Little Rock that went by the name of Systematics.

TOM VALENTINE:
Was the Inslaw company’s computer software called PROMIS involved anywhere in this? (The owners of Inslaw claim that during the Reagan administration the Justice Department reneged on a contract with them, stole the software and used it and sold it to foreign governments.—Ed.)

JAMES NORMAN:
Yes. It started out looking like a little cloud on the horizon, but it’s turned out that the uses to which this PROMIS software has been put would boggle the mind. It’s a very powerful system that was initially designed for tracking legal cases, but it was also designed to be customized so that you could adjust it to track all kinds of things. It’s been used in tracking nuclear submarines, intelligence data and banking transactions.  It was in 1982 -- right about the time that this “Follow the Money” program was launched—that Inslaw came up with its proprietary enhancement (PROMIS) of what had, until then, been public domain software that had been developed by the government with taxpayer dollars. The government’s funding for the program had run out, but Inslaw came in and re-wrote and enhanced the software. It was those enhancements that the government took since the government was so desperate for a software to implement this “Follow the Money” program in particular since it required massive amounts of tracking.

I think what was involved here was an effort to get all of the world’s megabanks to standardize their data in a way that would be easily analyzed by the National Security Agency (NSA). Now the NSA is the signals intelligence arm of the government. It’s the computer spy agency, really, and highly secretive.

Systematics in Little Rock was one of a number of companies that got involved in installing, selling, supporting, customizing and managing this software and bank data center operations. Actually, it appears that there was a cluster of such companies.  Systematics was started by Jackson Stephens, the investment banker, who has been heavily involved in bond trading in Arkansas. It grew rapidly in the 1970s as it took out more domestic business. In 1982, as the government was looking for a company to help out with this “Follow the Money” program, Systematics took on a big role in that and its business boomed even more.

Then when Bill Clinton came to the White House and Foster and Hubbell came along with him, Systematics’ overseas business blossomed along with it and they started getting contracts from a number of foreign banks.

TOM VALENTINE:
Was Vince Foster in the NSA?

JAMES NORMAN:
When you say “in” the NSA, it’s hard to say. The way it’s been described to me is that he was an interface person between the NSA and Systematics. The way I see it, is that Vince Foster at the Rose Law Firm was a very quiet but a very bright guy. He was one of Jackson Stephens’ trusted “deal guys” at the law firm. He was a litigator, but more than that he was a business lawyer.  In that role he would have been in charge of supervising contracts, setting up accounts, high-level marketing and smoothing all of the lumps that would naturally go on between [a company he represented] and a government it was involved in contracts with.  Foster never showed up as an employee of Systematics. He never billed Systematics for any time. You won’t find his name cropping up on any Systematics documents, although we’ve been told by good sources that he was involved with Systematics, although the company denies it. There’s an absolute solid wall of denials about this. Somebody’s lying.

TOM VALENTINE:
Was Webb Hubbell ever retained by Systematics?

JAMES NORMAN:
They did retain Hubbell and Hillary Clinton. In 1978 Jackson Stephens ended up being the front man for a group of Arab backers of BCCI, which at the time tried to take over Financial General Bankshares, a major Washington-based bank holding company. It was one of the few banks that was then able to own banks over state lines. Stephens came in and bought a big chunk of that bank and wanted to take it over.  One of the things he wanted to do, according to the SEC lawsuit that blocked the takeover, was to bring in Systematics to do all of the data processing for that bank. In that case, Hubbell and Hillary Clinton ended up representing Systematics in some of the filings that they made in that case.

The reason this is significant is that, I’ve been told, the first work that Systematics was doing for the government really was shuffling covert money, managing the covert funds moving around in secret government covert operations accounts.  This was no small job. It took a significant amount of computer power because they were moving money around from one account to another, setting up new accounts, phony companies, etc. It was a major task and Systematics was in an ideal position to do that because its business was to outsource the data processing function in a number of small banks, mainly in the Midwest, the West Coast and Texas.

Systematics would go to these small banks and say, ”You can’t keep up with the technology. Why don’t you just let us take your computers and your people and provide all of that processing. You don’t have to worry about it.” That may be a prudent thing for a small bank to do, but when it would do that, it would give up a tremendous amount of control over the guts of your bank and what this allowed to happen was the creation, essentially, of a cyberbank for the covert funds.

What we’ve been told—and Systematics will adamantly deny this is that at the end of every day there would be a direct bank- to-bank balancing transaction of funds. We are told that imbedded in these day-end transactions would be information codes—compressed data that would convey the information about these coded accounts. The banks that were involved themselves might not even know this was going on. However, we are told that this is how all of this money got moved around.

If you think about it, there had to be maybe hundreds of billions of dollars moving around during the 1970s and 1980s in these covert arms-and-drugs transactions. Nobody has adequately explained where that money came from or where it went. It certainly never went through Congress. It certainly was never appropriated and didn’t show up in government budgets. It was not just “black” money but “black black” money that even the congressional oversight people didn’t know was sloshing around out there.

TOM VALENTINE:
Has the Washington Post, for example, reported any of this?

JAMES NORMAN:
On July 4 the Washington Post published an article pooh-poohing what they called all of the “conspiracy theories” about the Foster death. What is interesting, though, is the shift that’s going on at the Post. Prior to that article, the Post was utterly dismissive of any of these things. The tone in this most recent article moves to a more neutral position. I think you are gradually going to see more of the major media moving to get on board this freight train before they get run over by it. The cover-up is unraveling.

TOM VALENTINE:
So Vince Foster was investigated as a possible spy for Israel?

JAMES NORMAN:
That’s what makes him a very key figure. He was a double agent in a sense. He was overseeing a massive intelligence effort for our country which conceivably gave him access to very high level intelligence. You have to realize that the keys to the kingdom these days are in computer encryption, codes, systems. That’s what loses and wins wars these days. You can listen to the other guy’s traffic.  By the nature of what Systematics was doing and what we believe was some relationship between Systematics and E-Systems which is one of the NSA’s primary black operations subcontractors, it’s conceivable that Foster could have had very high level code and encryption information. The problem is that he died before investigators could figure out what did or did not get out the door.

I’ve been told that perhaps because of Foster’s long-time involvement with intelligence matters for the Rose Law Firm that when he went to the White House he was probably a key interface person between the White House and the intelligence community, which, I think, perhaps explains why there was such a frenzy of activity after he died. That’s why they held the Park Police and the FBI at bay while they rifled through his papers trying to figure out what was “national security” and what wasn’t. That explains so much about why this thing has been covered up.

TOM VALENTINE:
The American people have been led to believe that Foster was just another nice-guy lawyer who came to town with Bill and Hillary.

JAMES NORMAN:
Wrong. Here’s the problem: the media tries so hard to be responsible and not get carried away and to not impugn the government unnecessarily and the government is able to play that like a violin and squelch any story that questions the government’s position. It’s hard to get any story like that into print because the standards of proof have to be so high. I’m thoroughly ashamed and embarrassed at the performance of the American major media and it makes you wonder why.

TOM VALENTINE:
Why would Israel have paid Vince Foster anything?

JAMES NORMAN:
Well, I don’t think it’s any secret that both Israel and the United States have been spying on one another for a long time. As close as the relationship is between the U.S. and Israel, there are some things we don’t want to tell them and vice versa, and particularly during the Bush administration the relationship soured. Israel is a foreign country and their concerns are not always congruent to ours. Who knows?
We know Foster was under investigation for espionage. We don’t know what he gave Israel. We know that there was $2.73 million in his Swiss bank account—the funds that came from Israel. He had other Swiss bank accounts as well that were receiving funds from U.S. interests. His periodic one-day trips to Geneva are problematic in and among themselves.

TOM VALENTINE:
You discovered some other interesting things.

JAMES NORMAN:
This other matter is very troubling to me. It’s another bombshell. Foster’s was not the only Swiss bank of a high-level U.S. political figure that’s been raided and deleted this way in the past year and a half. The Fifth Column has gone into and cleaned out probably a couple of hundred coded Swiss bank accounts belonging to high-level U.S. political figures—the biggest names going—in both parties. The take, we’ve been told is over $2 billion, going on $3 billion.

TOM VALENTINE:
Will the Fifth Column ever go public?

JAMES NORMAN:
I don’t know. I think that probably the way the intelligence community works that the name will get changed, it will be shuffled around and you’ll never find it.

TOM VALENTINE:
This is the kind of thing that I know bothers you as a journalist.

JAMES NORMAN:
The issues here are so immense that they’ve just got to be discussed in some way. The persuasiveness of the cover stories by the government is so disturbing. Under the cover of national security the government is allowed to lie to the public and lie, cheat and steal if they have to to protect national security. The more that you look at the Foster case the more you realize that this is an authorized cover story.

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^ Oh man, they are so fricking busted with this shit.

[birther truther tenther]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/43205961/Poo-detention-Ltr-LIN-MUN-POO

U.S. Department of Justice
United States Attorney
Eastern District of New York
AB:CMP/MBM
271 Cadman Plaza East
F.#2010R02203
Brooklyn, New York 11201
November 18, 2010

VIA FAX
The Honorable Dora L. Irizarry
United States District Judge
Eastern District of New York
225 Cadman Plaza East
Brooklyn, New York 11201
Re: United States v. Lin Mun Poo
Criminal Docket No. 10-891 (DLI) (ALC)
Dear Judge Irizarry:
The government respectfully submits this letter in
support of its motion for a permanent order of detention of the
defendant Lin Mun Poo. On November 18, 2010, a Grand Jury in the
Eastern District of New York returned the attached four-count
indictment charging the defendant with access device fraud and
aggravated identity theft (Counts One and Two), as well as two
counts involving computer “hacking” – specifically, unauthorized
computer access and transmission of malicious code involving a
computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank (Counts Three and
Four). As explained below, the government has also obtained
extensive evidence of the defendant’s criminal hacking activity
targeting the national security, military and financial sectors
of the United States.
The defendant, a Malaysian citizen, was arrested on a
complaint in Brooklyn, New York on October 21, 2010, shortly
after his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport
(“JFK”) from Europe. At the defendant’s arraignment on October
22, 2010, United States Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky
entered a permanent order of detention with leave to make an
application for bail. Should the defendant apply for pretrial
release when he is arraigned on the indictment or at his initial
appearance before the Court, the government respectfully submits
that the defendant poses a serious risk of flight and should
remain in pretrial detention.
Factual Proffer
The government proffers the following facts concerning
the charges at issue and pretrial detention. See United States
v. LaFontaine, 210 F.3d 125, 130-31 (2d Cir. 2000) (the
government is entitled to proceed by proffer in a detention
hearing); United States v. Ferranti, 66 F.3d 540, 542 (2d Cir.
1995) (same); United States v. Martir, 782 F.2d 1141, 1145 (2d
Cir. 1986) (same). These facts are relevant to three of the
factors to be considered in the detention analysis under the Bail
Reform Act: (1) the nature and circumstances of the crimes
charged, (2) the history and characteristics of the defendant,
including his risk of flight, and (3) the evidence of the
defendant’s guilt. See 18 U.S.C. § 3142(g).
I.
Nature and Circumstances of Crimes Charged and the
Evidence of the Defendant’s Guilt
The government’s evidence of the defendant’s guilt of
the charged crimes, as well as uncharged criminal activity,
demonstrates his position as an extremely sophisticated and
dangerous computer hacker. At the time of the defendant’s
arrest, Secret Service agents seized a heavily encrypted laptop
computer that was in his possession. This computer contained a
massive quantity of stolen financial account data and personal
identifying information, including more than 400,000 credit card,
debit card and bank account numbers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
§§ 1029 and 1028A (Counts One and Two).
In his post-arrest statement, the defendant admitted
compromising the computer servers of a number of major financial
institutions and companies. For example, the defendant admitted
that he compromised a computer network of the Federal Reserve
Bank (“FRB”) by exploiting a vulnerability he found within their
secure system. The FRB in Cleveland, Ohio has confirmed that an
FRB computer network was hacked in approximately June 2010,
resulting in thousands of dollars in damages, affecting ten or
more FRB computers, and forming the basis for Counts Three and
Four.
The defendant’s seized computer also contains evidence
of additional and very significant hacking activity. For
example, the defendant possessed data illegally obtained from the
computer network of FedComp, a data processor for various credit
unions in the United States. By hacking into the FedComp system,
the defendant had unauthorized access to the data of the
Firemen’s Association of the State of New York Federal Credit
Union and the Mercer County New Jersey Teachers’ Federal Credit
Union, among other victims. The defendant also admitted to
compromising the computer networks of several major international
banks and companies, and admitted earning money by finding and
exploiting network vulnerabilities or trading and selling the
information contained therein.
The defendant has not limited his criminal conduct to
compromising financial institutions. The government has obtained
evidence that his cybercrime activities extend to the national
security sector. For example, in approximately August 2010, the
defendant hacked into the secure computer system of a major
Department of Defense contractor, which provides systems
management for military transport and other highly sensitive
military operations. These are but a few examples of the
government’s evidence of the defendant’s criminal hacking
activity targeting the United States’ financial and national
security sectors.
II. History and Characteristics of the Defendant and
Risk of Flight
The defendant is a resident and citizen of Malaysia.
He traveled to the United States from Malaysia via Europe on a
round-trip ticket, with a planned return date to Malaysia of
November 22, 2010. The government is not aware of any family or
professional ties to the United States or New York. Indeed, the
defendant appears to have traveled to the United States for the
sole purpose of engaging in criminal activity; within hours of
his arrival at JFK on October 21, 2010, United States Secret
Service agents observed the defendant selling stolen credit card
numbers for $1,000 at a diner in Brooklyn and arrested him
shortly thereafter. In his post-arrest statement, the defendant
admitted that the primary purpose of his journey to the United
States was to meet with an individual who the defendant believed
was capable of regularly providing the defendant with a large
volume of stolen card numbers and personal identification
numbers, which the defendant said he planned to use to withdraw
cash from automated teller machines.
The defendant’s lack of any non-criminal ties to the
United States and his return plane ticket to Malaysia are
sufficient to demonstrate his severe flight risk. Moreover, the
defendant has seemingly limitless unauthorized access to
financial accounts and identity information from around the
world, which would enable him to easily obtain financial
resources and a new identity to facilitate his flight. Finally,
the defendant faces a lengthy term of incarceration, which would
increase his motive to flee the United States if he were released
from custody. Under United States Sentencing Guideline § 2B1.1,
which assigns a minimum loss amount of $500 per unauthorized
access device (resulting in a total loss amount of at least $20
million), the defendant’s estimated Guidelines range for Count
One alone is 78 to 97 months. The defendant is also charged with
aggravated identity theft in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028A,
which carries a mandatory, consecutive sentence of two years.
These factors unequivocally demonstrate risk of flight by a
preponderance of the evidence. United States v. Chimurenga, 760
F.2d 400, 405 (2d Cir. 1985).
Conclusion
For these reasons, the government respectfully requests
that the Court maintain the permanent order of detention issued
on October 22, 2010 with respect to the defendant Lin Mun Poo.
Respectfully submitted,
LORETTA E. LYNCH
United States Attorney
By:
/s/ Cristina M. Posa
Cristina M. Posa
Melissa B. Marrus
Assistant U.S. Attorneys
(718) 254-6668/6790
cc: Kannan Sundaram, Esq. (via fax)
Attachment

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    


http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2010/2010nov18.html

November 18, 2010


PRESS RELEASE

MALAYSIAN NATIONAL INDICTED FOR HACKING INTO FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

Defendant’s Criminal Activities Extended to the National Security Sector

A four-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn today charging Lin Mun Poo, a resident and citizen of Malaysia, with hacking into a computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank and possessing more than 400,000 stolen credit and debit card numbers.1 The defendant was arrested on a criminal complaint shortly after his arrival in the United States on October 21, 2010, and has been held in custody since then. The case has been assigned to United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry.

The charges were announced by Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Brian G. Parr, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, New York Field Office.

According to the government’s pleadings and a detention letter filed today, the defendant made a career of compromising computer servers belonging to financial institutions, defense contractors, and major corporations, among others, and selling or trading the information contained therein for exploitation by others. On October 21, 2010, the defendant traveled to the United States for the purpose of obtaining additional stolen financial account information from other hackers, which he planned to use and sell for his own profit. When he was arrested a few hours after his arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Secret Service agents seized his heavily encrypted laptop computer, which contained a massive quantity of financial account data and personal identifying information that he had allegedly obtained by hacking into various computer systems. The victims included FedComp, a data processor for federal credit unions. As a result, the defendant was able to gain unauthorized access to the data of various federal credit unions, such as the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York and the Mercer County New Jersey Teachers. The defendant also allegedly compromised the computer servers of a number of major financial institutions and companies, including a computer network of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, by exploiting a vulnerability he found therein.

The defendant’s cybercrime activities allegedly extended to the national security sector. According to the government’s pleadings and detention letter, in approximately August 2010, he hacked into the computer system of a Department of Defense contractor that provides systems management for military transport and other military operations, potentially compromising highly sensitive military logistics information.

“Cybercriminals continue to use their sophistication and skill as hackers to attack our financial and national security sectors,” stated United States Attorney Lynch. “However, as this case demonstrates, they are no match for the cutting-edge investigative techniques of the Secret Service and the Department of Justice.” Ms. Lynch praised the outstanding investigative efforts of the Secret Service and the invaluable assistance provided by the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section and the Office of International Affairs of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

“As today’s technology continues to evolve, cybercriminals use these advances and enhancements to perpetrate an expanding range of crimes,” said Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Parr. “These crimes not only affect our nation’s financial infrastructure, but are also an ongoing threat to our national security. The Secret Service is committed to deploying cutting edge investigative practices and technology in order to bring these offenders to justice.”

If convicted of the most serious offenses, the defendant faces a maximum sentence of ten years’ imprisonment.

The government’s case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Cristina M. Posa and Melissa B. Marrus.

The Defendant:

 

LIN MUN POO
Age: 32

 

 

_____________________________

1 The charges contained in the indictment are merely allegations, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

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Hacker arrested after cracking Federal Reserve
November 19, 2010 - 10:30am

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PrintEmail   A federal grand jury has indicted a Malaysian citizen for allegedly hacking into a computer network at the Federal Reserve Bank and for possessing more than 400,000 credit and debit card numbers.
Federal prosecutors also allege Lin Mun Poo, 32, made a career of compromising systems at financial institutions, major corporations and defense contractors. They say he sold or traded the information he found.

"In the case of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the incident involved a test computer, which is used for testing software and applications," June Gates, public information manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, tells Federal News Radio in an email. "The incident did not involve the Bank's live, production computer system, and no fed data or information was compromised."

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Ummmmm...were the credit/debit card numbers from the Fed 

If so, what was the Fed maybe doing with 400,000 credit card numbers 

[egypt]

Maybe one of nunbers is Barry Soetoro's

[citizenx]

Not social security NUMBERS (plural) credit card numbers.

[hardrain77]

This just proves even more why the Fed needs to maintain its independence and ultra-secrecy, so dangerous hackers do not threaten America.  

[lordssyndicate]

GoAgile ..... Joy nice to see that  the CORBA framework is doing it's part to open  backdoors for cyber false flags yet again. Meh even...
 
CORBA is and evolved form of PTECH...
http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/corbafaq.htm

[Overcast]

They are testing the waters - testing security, measuring internal response.
Before this system becomes a 'building block' of their financial empire and they start to REALLY rely on it for electronic commerce.

That's the case with most 'hacks' - I do believe. They can't be that dumb.