The FIOD has this week a man and a woman from the municipality of Roosendaal held on suspicion of computer intrusion. The duo tried possible with five thousand DigiD accounts abuse to commit. In 180 cases that would be successful.
According to the public prosecutor’s office at five thousand DigiD accounts identified as likely to be unauthorised use. Phishing would be the man and the woman behind passwords and account names of citizens have come. They were able to this bank accounts and phone numbers change on the gov sites to get as benefits as they managed account numbers in writing. The accounts were made available by so-called ‘geldezels’ and four of them are also arrested. The FIOD knew seventy of those suspicious accounts.
Especially in older people managed to make through e-mails and phone approach the Digital data to extract. In total, as an estimated 50,000 captured. In addition to computer intrusion is that the two were also intruding on an automated network charged. The administrator of DigiD, Logius, the five thousand DigiD accounts to replace those of victims by the government, indemnified. At the beginning of this year was also a large-scale fraud with DigiD discovered.
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